Hitting with the 2025 Marucci CATX2 COMPOSITE | USSSA Baseball Bat Review

what up what up Will here with the baseball bat Bros and today folks we have a huge release the first time in 2 years we've seen a new UT trip bat from maruchi we have the catx composite 2 so going back doing a little maruchi Utrip history 4 years ago or so we had the cat 9 composite it was absolutely fire and then just two years ago they come out with the cat X composite that uh silver and red one and it was like weirdly stiff and rigid and in our uh in our big 2024 Utrip composite Showdown it actually did pretty bad this is probably too durable for a UA composite I know that sounds ridiculous but alloy bats are meant to serve the role of durability in UA and if I'm having a hard time breaking This Bat in in 100 swings it's going to be really really difficult for a Utrip aged kid to break this bat in sufficiently where The Sweet Spot is actually feeling good and today is marci's chance at Redemption I've heard some astronomical claims about this bat my hopes are this freaking high is maruchi back let's see all right folks massive review right here uh there's a few things I want to do today first uh I want to see if the drop five in the drop bait are even remotely the same bat we see that all the time in UA nowadays where the drop five is so Juiced and the drop eight is just pingy and not that good and then if it really comes down to it we're going to see if it is as good as our current number one ranked UTP bat the Rawlings icon and if that goes really well we have a new and wrapper hype fire if we get to that point but first I would like to see how this new cadx composite 2 catx 2 composite uh fares against the cat 9 and the catx compos pause it we'll be able to tell just from the sound so very excited to try this out and I suppose we need to break it in anyway so let's just get a few break and swings on this guy dude I'm getting a little bit of catx I'm getting a little bit of cat9 composite dude we've already seen 108 109 110 okay uh let's try the drop eight and at least see if it's close you know let's see if the sound is close the barrel profiles are the exact same I just hope it doesn't sound like a metal bat like a ping gu the barrel feels great but it it is defin definely a little more pingy that sounded good okay back to the drop five for one yeah all right similar to most brands expect the drop five version of this bat to be the hottest the lowest compression the best performing by a good margin so let's set a little Baseline with our Rawlings icon drop five right here this has about 30 swings on it so it's not very broken in pretty similar to the cat X that's that should be far that's going to be over 450 oh 112 483 remember that sound too that's a good bunk that's 110 hammered 116 all right let's get one good barrel with the hype fire and as is tradition we're going to keep the wrapper on the hype fire that's going to be a problem 116 422 all right that is a good start and that I think is a good initial Mark that we'd like to hit with our maruchi so we would be happy with 116 mph we'd also be happy with 485 ft or so RCI cat X2 composite so I think it's more balanced than both of those bats good easy to swing balance swing we oh my gosh oh my gosh yes 117 wow maruchi is back dude let's go oh man I just love to see good competition in the market bro I mean granted that was low that was low launch angle let's try to Back Spin one dude as far as just the swing ability the handle the taper the swing weight this feels really really good to swing compared to those two the icon on the hype fire if you've swung them they just have a Pencil Thin handle this feels a lot better I think it balances the bat out a lot more that's 110 come on all right 112 480 that's good okay durability check real quick we have slightly raised paint slightly raised paint so this camera will probably show it a little better I could tell by the sound on that that was a little funky yeah that's more that's a seam that's more than just spider webbing right there I'm a little concerned about that durability especially compared to something like the icon we're going to wail on the icon for a few more hacks and then go back to this just to show you know like sure a 12-year-old probably isn't going to break this bat you know nearly nearly as quick as I'm going to break it but just in relation at least to an icon I'm going to guess the icon's going to be more durable so so definitely more end load on the icon gosh that's hammered bro wow wow 116 463 oh no oh my God bro okay that wasn't too bad 112 470 tattoo 115 bro the the maruchi is hot so we're working with a small crack in our R which I'm a little bummed out about that it's happening that early it's excusable cuz I'm hitting with it the icon in the soldier tank and the Zen are like almost indestructible and if the pop is similar man that's tough so if it is just a little seam and it stays like that for a while I'm cool with it but if that's all she wrote I'm going to be a little concerned so let's see okay that still felt pretty good dude it still feels great 114 this is a lot like that old black and red cat n composite I wouldn't be surprised if it's literally that b come on dude dude it's it's there bro 117 again and this this side is staying good Jam shot dude that's absolutely tattooed off the hands 111 sh in front dude that almost went over the building little bit end oh my gosh 491 dude what 118 dude okay you know what it really reminds me of what last year's I I con which we always just called a balance swinging hype fire and now the new icon is more like just a slightly tone down more durable version of the hype fire and you see those early signs of suspect durability we have a little seam on the barrel but it's not progressing we got a few balls left okay let's go this is just like the cat n bro Jam shot great does not ring too bad that'll play 106 ah how do I waste the ball on such a bad hit like that bro hey big Testament to The Sweet Spot 429 113 450 two more just end dude I'm having a lot of fun with this [Music] 1076 450 last one with the icon dude these freaking travel ball kids are so lucky they have four of like the best bats ever ever created literally like if you gave that bat to a a high schooler in the '90s who swung the gorilla ARA bats they would be amazed they'd be like what is this all right icon that's hammered freaking hammered 117 okay we got to break this down and before we dive a little deeper here let's do a damage report so here's our icon slowmo rotation this thing is an absolute brute they added a little swing weight this year to the drop five and it is just about indestructible I mean I I have still yet to break one of these very impressive so you've got one brake there you can see the composite thing and then one here dang that's a new one mhm yeah right there so one right there that's not it's not done but that is a seam for sure and then yeah there you go so hey at least they're not blowing up like you could tell it still h it's compression it was still it even got hotter honestly I don't even know how you would be able to make a bat to compete with the icon and the hype fire that doesn't you know crack a little bit so okay let's get into it so we basically now have four bats that we'd call it hyp fire era hun you have obviously this guy we have the icon which is you know very similar to the hype fire and every sense it's just noticeably more durable and a touch less hot to trade off for the durability and then you have the soldier tank which we previously reviewed a little bit more balanced than both of these bats but just a tiny tiny bit less hot and a little more flexy and flimsy and then you have this which feels a lot like last year's icon which is probably close to the fragility of a hype fire but I would say out of those four we just mentioned this is probably the easiest to swing the lightest swinging I I don't know where you put it in the mix I don't think it's one I think the icon is one especially when you consider the drop 8 and the drop 10 icon people absolutely love those I'm probably going with the icon the next three are just neck and neck so I will at least try to make this a little easier on you guys by scaling out those four bats putting all the attributes on there and at least giving you guys some sort of frame of reference so you can pick which of those attributes is most important to you but guys I'm telling you we are looking at four of the best bats ever made if it's up to me I'm probably going with the icon across drop eight drop 10 and drop five but that CAD X2 comp pass the test very reminiscent again of that cat9 composite love to see it great job maruchi