Hitting with the 2025 RAWLINGS ICON | USSSA Baseball Bat Review

what up what up we here with the baseball bat Bros and today folks we are swinging the 2025 Rawlings icon UA got the new design looks pretty clean we're going to see what is different about this bat and if it is still the number one bat in UTA let's get it gosh this is good all right so first we'll give you a full look at the new bat right here pretty slick looking bat if you ask me big fat Barrel this is the drop five right here here and the current General consensus is that this is a repaint of this bat however I'm here to tell you it's not quite that simple so with the 2024 white Rawlings icon there were actually two different versions of this bat that went completely unannounced so if you remember our first review of the icon dude it broke dude it broke what8 distance 389 118 oh yeah look dang it well that did it really really fragile and as hot as like the hype fire out of the wrapper however halfway through the season they made the bat a little actually quite a bit more durable and you noticeably had to break it in a lot more so today we want to get this bat right here from sounding like this to this so sounds drastically different and lastly we're going to look at these two bats again most of you know that the soldier tank this crazy looking bat right here recently dethroned both the icon and hype fire as in our opinion the best overall bat in UA and we will take another look at that today and make sure that is the case let's go so first things first we got to get the icon broken in a little bit you will hear that it's very pingy so yeah I mean it's great that's a little swing for 107 but not where we want it to be and here is at least an icon that I've taken probably 30 Swings with 40 Swings with so this will get us halfway there we're just going to take a few more swings to get it loosened up and see if it can hang with the tank God that feels good 114 going to be a lot of those I'm going to try to keep this quick so we don't lose all our baseballs all right feels goodoo so that's about 50 or so hacks all at like 105 to 110 exit V I would hope that this is broken in so we are now going to move move on to the soldier tank and set a mark to see if the icon can beat it that sounds absurd that sounds absolutely absurd sounds like a 2 L Coke yep off the hands for 110 108 419 hit pretty hard okay 114 for four 458 good hit 14 again out front 111 just about there that's 114 for for the third time good little poke one 10 that's it okay that that needs to be 115 yeah there we go 116 mph with the soldier tank feels really good biggest thing is just the durability I've probably got close to 150 swings on this for a guy that should not be swing swinging this bat and it hasn't broke all right we need 116 with the icon dude this and the tank in my opinion are just so so close for the top bat in the game weighting they're very similar I will say the the soldier tank weighs heavy on a scale but a lot of that weight is in the hand so it actually swings relatively balanced Sweet Spot they're close pop they're really close so let's see Dude that feels so good that feels so good 112 dude this is going to be close p r sign just above it 111 114 110 that's pretty good 118 I don't know what to freaking do guys they're so close dude okay here's one thing I'll say about the tank it almost feels like this bat is at 100% Breakin Potential from swing one and after swinging it a bunch of times the handle feels so freaking flexible it almost feels a tiny bit less hot the more I hit with it with which is the opposite of what you would expect from a composite bout it almost feels kind of mushy in a way but The Sweet Spot is like freaking Limitless oh we got to get one more with each bro gosh this is good this is freaking great bro 441 113 oh that's a freaking tank bro oh that's got to be over the light come on 46311 see that almost felt mushy 115 huh that's a good freaking hit give us five 507 115 the icon in the tank guys you can't go wrong last time the tank barely barely won this time I think the icon barely won 1 a 1B 1 a 1B and I don't know which is which I Pro I just wouldn't get the hype fire the hype fire is too fragile in my opinion I'd get one of those twoo so here we are yet again in a absolute pickle between these three bats the soldier tank the Rawling icon and the hype fire I will probably disqualify the hype fire from this conversation just because it is Far and Away the most fragile bat out of the three you can see all the cracks right here and sure like I will admit I'm not the guy that should be swinging This Bat but the icon in the tank do not break when I hit with them rarely ever so these are way more durable than this so that's why I put the hype Fire by default in three this is the hottest bat but these are hotter than any bat should ever be anyway so getting to these two bats I mean first things first the Rawlings icon 2025 just independently the review of the bat it is freaking amazing killer killer job the only tweak I would have made to last year's white Rawlings icon is to make it a tiny bit durable while trying to preserve the pop and they freaking nailed it man the only thing that I'm kind of hung up on is how this bat started to feel flimsy almost and kind of soft as if the handle got almost too flexible over time I'm not sure exactly what happened cuz I don't see any cracks in the barrels like you can look close the durability is fantastic but it almost felt like something changed at about 100 swings or so with the tank and it got a little flimsy and this thing really really woke up at about 50 swings there really hot the durability again I'm super impressed with we'll give you a really close look at the barrel again this bat I've hit with in two separate videos now a drop five composite in the hands of a guy hitting 110 and this thing is holding up very very impressive uh I've also heard just amazing amazing things about the drop 10 and the drop 8 versions of the Rawlings icon so it's really kind of a coin flip between these two bats but the icon really really shine today guys and again I think this could really be a 1A and 1B scenario for the best bat in UA I mean I can't say enough good things about both of these bats right here