Hitting with the 2024 LOUISVILLE SLUGGER OMAHA | BBCOR Baseball Bat Review

What up, what up? Will here with the Baseball Bat Bros. And today folks, we got the 2024 Omaha from Louisville Slugger the first new redesigned Omaha we've seen in probably four or five years. Very excited about this. I've heard people say this is basically an end-loaded Atlas only $250. Let's get it. Yeah! All right, so here's a closer look at the new Omaha. Real sleek design here, nice and minimal. Gonna look good with some pine tar. We got an end-loaded one piece alloy. This bat's been around since like the year 2000, right guys? Everybody knows about the Omaha. Honestly, like for the first time in a long time this bat kind of fell out of the limelight in the last few years. It did actually exist last year in 2023, but like barely. So they came out with this bat. A lot of you guys probably aren't even gonna recognize this bat because they released it for about a month and then pulled it from the shelves because they were having really bad reviews about this really funky looking plastic knob that was actually falling off. It's just like plastic, super, super minimal and go to slugger.com. There's like five reviews and three out of the five reviews or something like that say the knob is falling off. Why can't these knobs stay on? So they just canned it and started making 2024s and now we finally have this thing and we'll even compare it to the old 2022. A bat that's very popular in college baseball but very heavy, very rigid. I don't think a very ideal bat for a lot of high school guys, so. But I do wanna point out also, I think when you buy this bat stock it comes with this really odd rubber, they're calling it a pyramid taper. I think it's good for like choking up or if you hang a pinky off, but it's really funky. So I got two of them. I'm just gonna go with the straight up one because this has a taper similar to the Atlas. I'm a big fan. 33.30s today, we are out here at Vince Guinness Stadium, home of the Bendels, here's our dimensions. And for $250 guys, I'm very optimistic right now. Could be a top eight contender. The only bat that's cheap on that list right now was the Rawlings Clout AI. So high hopes right here. Everyone's been wondering how it bunts. Real good. I really like that sound, it's kinda dull. What we got? 102. Okay, 102. There we go, that's way off the hands. Didn't hurt very much, bro. Didn't hurt very much. It doesn't sound a lot like the Atlas. It's like an Atlas with a silencer. 98. Okay. Velos aren't crazy hot yet, but we'll see if the Atlas is putting up high velos. Every time we do velo testing, it's all relative to the other bats that we already know are good, right? It's heavy, but that barrel feels good. 101. Okay. Envelope's getting to me a tiny bit. I really like that sound, it's kind of a log though. What's that? 103. Okay. One more and we're gonna see what kind of velos we're getting with the Atlas. Perfect, perfect right there. Okay. Intrigued that I'm not hitting the ball harder right now. What do we got? 103. Atlas time. I'm usually getting at least 105s. We're gonna try the Atlas. I routinely get 106, 107, even sometimes up to 108 with this bat. Sheesh. If I'm getting 103s, 102s, that means that this bat's still good and we need to continue with the review. Not gonna lie, that Omaha swung me a little bit, bro. This is a lot easier to get around. What's that? 105. The sound is way different too. Way whippier. 107. No way. I thought that was gonna be real. I'm confused right now. I thought that, I thought the Omaha was gonna be better. The review's not over, but that's weird. That's a ball I'm fouling straight back with the Omaha. I promise you that. Not a well-hit ball, but that'll play. Just a way better hit. What's that? 106. Hands a tiny bit. Sweet spot still feels good on this, guys. That's what this reads. We had 105, 106, and 107 right there. All right. Maybe now we're warmed up. Back to the Omaha. Same baseballs for every hit, guys, by the way. It's not like we just have hot balls for the Atlas. It's a lot heavier. I didn't think I was gonna notice it that much, but this is a lot heavier. Dude, I smashed that ball with the Atlas. Maybe we need a stronger guy to review these bats. If that doesn't go, I retire. Hey! Dude! It's rare that I have this hard of a time hitting bombs. 99, distance, nine. All right. Okay, let's freaking let her rip on a couple. Come on. Yeah! Okay, if that isn't at least 105, we're in trouble. Oh! We're gonna try the brand new one with the little taper on it. Maybe this magically adds three miles an hour. Hands a little bit. 96. The Atlas is better all around, 100%. It's such a boring narrative in our videos that the Atlas always wins, but I'm telling you guys. How does that not go out, boys? 100. It sounds sick. The sweet spot is huge. It's soft, though, or I just can't handle that swing weight, which is weird, because I hit good with the goods. I swing 34s every now and then. That's a 33. See, I'm just missing that ball, and it feels like a different world. Like I'm out, I hit the top rail of the thing above it, by the way. That's a bomb. That's a badness. I'm barreling them with the Omaha and getting 100. It's a video. 104, 428. This wins. I'm honestly a little disappointed. I thought the Omaha was gonna be better. Atlas and Select Power. College guys, if you're watching this, I mean, be my guest and swing this log if you want, but if I were you, if you can handle swing weight, I would swing the Select Power. If you want a little bit more bat control, I'd swing the Atlas. We'll give this one swing for fun. Who is that shortstop for Stanford? 13th in the country, second in the conference as Tommy Troy gets into one. Mashes with this bat. That feels better than the new one. What's going on? Missed it. What a L for the new Omaha. I'm honestly a little confused. Gosh, that feels great, though. Man, maybe the most sweet spot we've ever had on an Omaha. Maybe the heaviest Omaha we've ever seen. And just not a lot of response off of the barrel compared to the Atlas and even the older Omaha, in my personal opinion. Not very reminiscent of bats like the 516 or the 517. Little bit bummed out about this, but good news. This thing still absolutely bangs and you have bats like the Stinger Guardian and the Rawlings Clout AI that are still really, really good unloaded bats at that cheaper price point.