CORKED BAT vs. BAUM BAT | Wood Baseball Bat Review

What up, what up? Will here with the Baseball Bat Bros. And today, folks, we are testing a little theory we have. So we have a corked wood baseball bat. This is obviously a cheater bat. Oh, dude, that's halfway down the bat. We even have it labeled so nobody can use this in a game. But we are wondering if the bomb bat, the wood bat bomb bat, is actually as hot, if not hotter, than a corked bat. Let's get it. Dude, this thing is crazy. All right, so we got three bats we're gonna work through today. First, we are gonna set a baseline with our regular, unaltered, pure wood bat. We have a Marucci AP5 33-inch maple. This thing was $180. Then we have our cheater bat. The most classic way to illegally alter a regular wood bat, as you can see there, very blatantly obvious cheating. And then finally, what people do not consider a cheater bat in the wood bat world. However, this is the hottest wood bat I've ever swung, and there's not much that is wood about it. We have the bomb bat wood composite. Here's what the inside looks like. And this thing, I mean, will run you clear into the 300s, even maybe up to $400 these days. It is super hot, it is super durable, so I get it. The price is just kind of heinous. So we will start with just our regular old maple bat, the Marucci AP5 maple. Let's get it. Little end of the bat there. Felt pretty good, though. Woo-hoo! That might have already gone out. 95. 95, not bad. Good barrel there. All right. Woo! Oh, no. Perfect barrel, there it is. Give me 105. 105. Woo! All right, so 105 miles an hour, that's a great baseline for a wood bat. And now we are moving on to the cheater corked bat. That will give you a better look. We'll flash back to when we made this thing. We're gonna drill down eight inches into this thing and take a bunch of weight off here. So let's go. You can't even see the bottom. Measuring out how much cork we're gonna need here. Applying the adhesive so the cork stays in there. That's pretty good. Sand it down, make it look nice. All right, that's looking good. So we have it fully corked and sanded down. So the Birch corked bat, we need 105. Over the scoreboard. Four, what? 457? Dude, that's my wood bat PR, I think. Oh my gosh. Dude, this thing feels so good. Dude, this thing's crazy, bro. Again. Bro, there's so many people, especially like in the science community, that will tell you that a corked bat does not work at all. It's all a myth. I beg to differ. I think what a lot of the studies, like Mythbusters, for example, failed to take into account is the added bat speed that you're gonna get while still, again, maintaining that hard wood exterior. I mean, I'm basically swinging a drop five wood bat right now. This thing is so easy to swing and is hitting so far better than our Marucci AP5 because I'm hitting that 105 exit below at a much higher indirect contact type of launch angle. Dude, that might be 107. I'm getting way too good at this, bro. This feels so good. That's gonna get, yeah. All right, and lastly, what I think is the true cheater wood bat, right here we have a Bombat Endload gold maple flared handle, and I think this would probably run you about $400 right now, which is insane, but you could argue maybe it's worth it if it's gonna be really durable. I have a million swings on this bat and we'd like to beat 107 exit below, which with these baseballs, I think that would be a PR for me. 107 is already, I think, my PR with the wood bat. So let's see, Bombat. Beautiful. Ah, that's hands bad. That's stung more than the other bats. Wow, 390? Ah, dude, the sweet spot is the worst on this out of all three bats. That's hit pretty well. That needs to be 105. 106, wow, all right. Pretty good barrel right there. Little hands, maybe, off the scoreboard. Okay, dude, we're right in line with the Corky so far, maybe even worse. Pretty good barrel there. Gotta have it. Yes, sir. That's pretty good, 105. Okay, perfect barrel, let's go. Pretty good. Hammer. 103, 445. 106, wow. Round one goes to the Cork bat. I'm actually pretty surprised. We're gonna get one more G-Hack barrel with all three bats. So I have a little theory about the Bombat that has actually been told to me by a few people. And it is that because of that weird styrofoam, I think it's called polypropylene interior of a Bombat, it actually gets less hot when it is warmer weather, which is kind of the opposite of what you would normally think with any bat performance. But I've heard that these are a little more flexible and flimsy and not quite as juicy when it's warm out. And this is a good, probably still a good 80 degrees right now here in Utah. And we are not seeing as much separation with our Bombat versus our regular wood bats as we have in the past. So I'm really interested to see these last few hacks. Back to our regular Maple Marucci. Dude, this sweet spot feels money. 106, wow. That's over the scoreboard. Oh my. Dude, this is really getting her done. Boom, perfect barrel. 104. Dude, that is not a lot of separation. So onto the Cork bat. So far, we're at 106, 107, 106. All very close. All have homers in the 450s. Loudest hit of the day, for sure. Dude, I'm so scared we're gonna hit a car. What's that? Okay. All right, the Bombat needs 107. 460 would also do the trick. Could be it. Wow. I think the warm weather Bombat theory might be true, bro. There it is. That's perfect. Oh, we didn't hit a car. Let's go. 104? That's really surprising, guys. I literally went into this video thinking this would run away with it. I think there is something to that warm weather theory because when I hit with this in Wyoming, I was hitting Bombs. When I hit with this in Augusta, Georgia, it was cold, bro. The corked bat, successfully engineered, was our hottest bat of the day. And it felt the best. It swung the lightest. The best sweet spot. Best bat on the day. Dude, I swung the Marucci AP5 significantly better than I swung the Bombat. We've talked about that before where this is one of the hottest bats you can get. It's just kind of hard to barrel it. It's a very small sweet spot compared to a good OG i13 243 barreled wood bat. So kind of disappointment on the day, even though obviously this is a really good bat. We just hold it to a crazy S tier standard because it's three to $400 now. The corked bat is an absolute goat and very surprising good performance by the AP5.