Hitting with the 2025 DeMarini ZEN | USSSA Baseball Bat Review

what up what up we here with the baseball bat Bros and today folks the long it's not long awaited it just came out but all right start over what up what up Will here with the baseball bat Bros and today folks we have the first 2025 from D Marini the Zen that's right the zoa is no longer this is the new Utrip bat and D Marini is saying this is their hottest Utrip bat they have ever made the hype fire has completely changed what bat companies are trying to do in UA I'm very excited I'm worried it's going to break in about 10 swings but I think we might be in that 120 mph exit V oh my God potentially 500t territory we're going to see if this is legit as hot as a hype fire or icon let's get it all right so this is D Marini's response to the eastn hype fire because of this bat you're going to see a lot hotter bats from D Marini and even like marut this year I believe we already saw it with the iccon and this is the main bat I want to compare the Z uh the Zen to today is this guy this thing's an absolute rocket launcher so first thing we want to see is this Zen actually different from this but then also is it as good as you know two of the literally I think the best UA composite bath we've ever ever seen including the Green Zen which this thing claims to be better than so we're also going to look at some of the drop baits and I do think the drop bait is is going to be different they're kind of pulling it east in here so we will start with that first so I've got a drop eight Zen right here I'm just going to show you the sound of this first and then I'm going to show you the sound of the drop five okay drop five Zen drastically different sound even more drastic than the hype fire drop five and drop eight those were very very different this is last year's drop eight zoa and this year's drop a Zen sounds the exact same let's actually catch a barrel so I think the drop eight and drop 10 might be very very similar maybe this breaks in better but we'll focus on the drop fives uh for now cuz that seems to be the really hot one and D Marini is making just ridiculous claims about this bat uh it's lighter weight than last year it's their largest Barrel they've ever had in ut trip first of all I don't think it's the largest bar they've ever had this is last year's drop 5 zela right here this is actually a 31 compared to a 32 and we have the little plastic on there but guys that's nothing like I'm freaking pulling this down on there bigger Barrel on the red zoa here's a 33 I think the 33 is the exact same Barrel yeah bigger Barrel on the red zoa so I don't know where they got that claim this is a bigger Barrel profile for sure so we're just going to get a couple swings to start out with the 3227 drop five 2025 Zen right here that sounds amazing 106 it sounds and feels like the zoa 109 looking back at our Utrip composite video that'll do her all right 109 469 ft oh my goodness that was cooking this was chilling around 113 to 115 on the high end so that's what we're trying to beat today The Sweet Spot feels absolutely amazing jeez 107 Hammer Miss 114 so seems pretty close so far granted this has about five swings on it we're going to try last year's zoa uh then see if it's close to this or if it's the same thing and then we'll open up a lot more I'm going for I'm going for 120 today okay 2024 zoa oh jeez 110 the barrel feels close to the same we do oh gosh we have a lot of swings on this back maybe we should try to conserve baseballs we're just going to compare this to the icon and the hype fire and just cut straight to the point here so dude we're going to have to go inside for the last part of this cuz we only have so many baseballs [Applause] folks all right one ball lost 112 it's still definitely a little end loaded this is not what I would consider a very light drop five go 11 16 113 at least they're not going on the roof 112 oh wow yes that stayed in 111 on that not quite good hit though [Applause] 108 okay that's pretty good Barrel yeah nice okay 109 464 feels a lot like the zoa reminds me a lot of this zoa still feels unloaded does not feel as balanced as they're saying but we will try the icon that is definitely a more balanced bat all right the current bat of choice for most of you tripa right now given the current hype fire situation 116 is our high jeez 112 this is definitely a little lighter hit the light yes dude we freaking ticked it okay 109 479 116 dude The Zo is the Zen is is good this feels a touch better so far it might be five dude you cleared oh almost 113 487 okay last one with the icon then we'll get one more with the with the Zen that's it shoot that's 120 it is 120 flat let's go no breakage okay come on Zen we need 120 that's about perfect Perfect Dude 113 come on that's perfect perfect come on that smoked something did you hear that yeah we might have really hit a car bad shoot 115 479 that was perfect Barrel we are going to bring it to the bat lab for a showdown cuz like we're hitting stuff so I want to show you the drop uh the drop eight again listen to the difference like that's a big let down to me is that it's a completely different bat completely different bat and then last year's zoa so yeah it's it's a it feels almost a little misleading when you have all this hype and and Tech going into your drop five and then the other drops are so vastly different at least they both seem very durable so far so to the bat lab we're going to really let it eat go for 120 plus all right we're going to see if the Zen can hang here folks good durability test too if if this survives this round your bat will probably not break if you are a 13-year-old so oh baby 112 oh man dude I'm hitting those really hard only 113 though come on it's kind of letting me down bro 108 dude that's all that's all it has it was it 114 yeah that's the top end 114 to 116 if I'm being really honest it's almost exactly like the zoa from last year which was a great bat it got third place in our composite show down these are just cracked literally and figuratively here we go into the bat 110 [Music] 117 this is lighter for sure 118 the icon is freaking Supreme bro we're going to end with the Zen but hyp fire time and 116 see that's that's not okay that was end of the bat that shouldn't happen 114 440 d That's hands I think okay this is the hottest bat for sure but it has the worst Sweet Spot out of the three 1177 1182 there's our leader bro that already freaking cracked like if the icon can get close to that and not crack the icon wins that high blasted 5 10 swings this is the best bat ever drop five drop 10 and drop eight the icon absolutely clears anything like for sure but we'll give this Zen one more shot here there's no way bro 10 six the icon smoke it the icon I mean remarkably this is our second video with it looks good they did a good job of beefing this thing up with better durability and then you can see it spider webbing I don't know if you can but spider webbing is good it's not bad this is looking good you want your B to spiderweb you just don't want it to break all right folks I'm just going to shoot you straight here all things considered dur durability swing weight pop Sweet Spot drop eight drop 10 drop five the Rawlings icon is the best UA bat and maybe the best UA bat ever um all right talking about the Zen the topic of the video today durability was good really good I mean I'm swinging a lot harder than the typical user of this bat wood and it did not crack neither did the icon but that's very impressive much better than the hype fire obviously for durability sweet spawn excellent um swing weight a little heavy for sure uh the the drop eight and drop 10 are very manageable swing weight but the drop five was a little heavy and then the pop just wasn't quite there if I'm being very very honest with you guys I think the marketing was drastically over inflated for this bat and this is 90 to 95% the zoa from last year um looks like it sounds like it hits like it this is the third best Utrip bat durability considered you could even argue this is the second best Utrip bat but this is just an League of its own again if you want a durable Utrip bat get alloy don't even mess with composits uh these composits are getting a little ridiculous clearly UA is just letting pretty much whatever go so uh yeah the these are these are hot this is you know close to the Green Zen in terms of of hotness but this is a new era of performance