Hitting with the DIRTY SOUTH BRAVO | BBCOR Baseball Bat Review

What up, what up? We're here with the Baseball Bat Bros. And today, folks, the most discreet bat we've done all year. This is the Dirty South Bravo. It's actually their first ever two-piece composite BB Corps bat. This thing looks wild. Look at that handle-to-barrel ratio. This thing literally looks like they took a 30-inch barrel and slapped it on a 33-inch handle, but we're gonna let the performance do the talking. Maybe this bat's good. I did spend $425 on this thing, cashed out my 401k, so we're gonna see how it does. Let's get it. All right, folks, we're gonna see if the old Dirty South Bravo could be the sleeper of the century. It's got some really tough competition, though. We got the Rawlings Icon two-piece composite right here. This is our highest-ranked composite BB Corps bat by kind of a lot. I've got about 100 break-in swings on this. Same with the Icon. That only has about 100 hacks. This is either gonna be a real quick review or a real dramatic review, so we'll see. Okay, let's bunt. Bunt's good. It can hit the ball. 98. That's not that bad. It's not that bad. 99. This reminds me of the corndog wood bat with the mega handle and the tiny little barrel club at the end of the bat. The DeMarini corndog. Ooh, I barreled that so good. No way! What? It even feels like the corndog. It's also not as heavy as I thought it would be. 97. 400 exactly. I thought it'd be heavier with this club handle setup. It's kind of balanced. Ow! That was hit so hard, dude. You do notice that there's just like a missing part of the sweet spot down here. 102. 407. It is so much like the corndog, bro. I swear. There's, yeah, the hands is terrible. It's basically like swinging a light 34 where like you have to catch it deep out on the barrel out in front of the plate. But when you do, it's good, dude. That's hammered. 104? That says 460! The wind's blowing out a little bit. I'll give you that, but all right. I don't know if it's gonna be as good as the Icon. It's not terrible. I thought, okay, full transparency. I thought this was gonna suck. It doesn't suck. It's not amazing, but it doesn't suck. No hands. I either hit a foul ball or a tank. It's like, if you get the barrel out, it's gone. But if it gets like onto the plate, if it gets deep at all, you're done. Dude, it's like a homerun hitting that. 430, 103. Okay, one more perfect perfect. Let's see if we can get 105 plus. Hands, bro. 103. It's not that bad, dude. That's close. 103. The perfect perfect spot is small, as you would suspect. Dude, I'm just barely missing them all. 103. One more chance. 101. We'll come back to this, but we're gonna see if the Icon is close to that kind of performance or if it just buries it. We'll see. That sounds a little better. Feels a little better. 104, 424. I don't think it's like ridiculously hotter, but that felt good. 99. Kind of hands. Jam shot there. 99. 107, 413. All right, we're gonna get one more with each. That was finally like perfect barrel, but all right, come on. We gotta get right on that, right on the beam. That was the barrel. 106. Dude, it's not that horrible. Besides the fact that the barrel should go clear down to here, it's not that horrible. It's just a sweet spot issue. Swing weight is good. The pop is good. The feel when you barrel it up is honestly really good. Doesn't sting the hands much. There's just a lot of like, a lot of that crap. Hands. It's kind of good off the hands though. Like that actually stung my hands. 105, 401. That's impressive. It does make up some ground on sweet spot for at least being hot if you get it down here. 106. 105, 396. 106, 440. Last chance. 107. It's okay. It's the corn dog. If this had an Icon barrel, it would almost be the Icon. It's literally just the Icon with about two inches less barrel. Woo! One little hack I did on the Icon as well. I taped over the knob. The knob is just very awkwardly small on this. So this adds a little bit of width to it. So we'll throw together a little Bat Bro scale for this guy. Again, it's close to being a very, very good bat. And we're also going to pick up one of their one pieces. That one looks like it has a much longer barrel. It could be very, very good. We will see. This is just not quite putting it all together, but it was pretty dang good. Definitely exceeded our expectations.