I remember when the Orange Stealth first came out in 07, nobody really used them... but then they started getting popular a full year later when the next year's version had already come out (the all blue stealth). It took that long for people to realize that it literally took a full season of an entire team using this bat (THOUSANDS of hacks) to get it to enter "GOD MODE". But by that point, they were already somewhat rare to find. The one we use in our videos is 25 years old and it still feels like it needs thousands more break-in swings.
Surely there would be a way to simulate those swings... just with a pitching machine setup automated in some way, if you don't want to spend the hours in the cages yourself ;p
Before this video, I never understood why the NCAA allows metal bats if the MLB does not. After this video, I DEFINITELY don't understand why the NCAA allows metal mats if the MLB does not...
Doesn’t make any sense. You would think that they would want players to be used to wooden bats… instead of having to readjust due to many years of using juiced aluminum bats.
Cause the NCAA doesn't give a shit about sports other than football and men's basketball. Baseball doesn't make enough money for them to put nearly as much effort into it as they do for football and basketball.
My impression was that it was due to wooden bats being prone to breaking and that being considered riskier, certainly for catchers who get a faceful of splinters. But I could be mistaken.
@@Tinil0 the weight distribution is different. So even if they get similar results you'd think they'd want players to get used to swinging wooden bats anyways just to get the feel for it
They're probably all broken now. Anything made of carbon degrades from repeated stress like the titan sub. They're ridiculous. It's like a spring board but more powerful. I got to play with one in highschool.
In my baseball program, one of our kids was killed by getting hit in the head. That was one of the pictures with the players and coaches carrying a casket. My coach was one of the guys carrying it and he held the kids hand all the way to the hospital. Forever 11
That’s horrible. I’m sorry for your loss. But even a standard ash -3 wood bat can produce exit velocity of 110 mph. Slowpitch bats can reach over 125mph velocity. It’s a dangerous game, you gotta pay attention and have quick instincts especially as an infielder.
Now i understand what they mean when guys offer bat rolling services. they are using compression rollers to juice the composite bats by simulating seasons of use in a few hours/days
I'll never forget the switch to BBCOR in the middle of high school. All of us were absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of pop in them coming from swinging BESR the whole time until that point. But BBCOR advanced fast af, and a few years later the difference was hardly noticeable. Either that, or we just eventually forgot what the prime BESR models felt like and just got used to the BBCOR's
@tokeypokey yeah crying over kids getting killed and games playing slower than ever what a fucking accomplishment I wouldn't have played either with such bullshit changes, let athletes go at it with the best possible equipment bar none no excuses, bring back the fucking exciting bats 😂
That's so crazy. I played HS baseball during the easton stealth comp era. It's so interesting that everyone knew those things were duds off the rack and you had to "break them in" like a glove, but I never knew why until today.
Man I was all about the EXO. If I used a stealth it was that blue one. A couple people had that orange stealth and you’re right that thing had no zing to it. Fast forward a year later, I came back to watch some friends that were still in HS and damn near the whole squad was using that orange stealth. Once you broke it in, it was butter coming off that barrel
I wish you'd used an actual composite bat sound instead of the aluminum "ding" each time the ball was hit with a composite bat. Anyone who's played with a composite bat instantly knows the unique thwack sound they make. Composite bats sound like an alien weapon being used.
DUDE, that shot at 0:53 with the Stealth/Voodoo/Catalyst/EXO brings back so many amazing memories.... what a time to be alive and playing ball. I'm 30 next year, and man, do I miss those days :(
AND THE TRITON AT 11:25 !!!!! My God!!! Growing up playing in the early 2000's and till about 2018, my dad had one of the black/grey and red TPX from the 90's with the HUGE barrels, as well as an Easton Reflex and an Easton Black Magic, and I will NEVER forget the first time I went out with him to take BP and used the TPX and Reflex when I had only ever swung a BESR up till then. The difference was insane. Still have them too haha. Just bring them out for BP once in a blue moon at the park to have fun.
I turned 31 a few months ago so I gamed with that orange stealth in high school. And the rest of my team had an assortment of those other bats, too, so I also got hit by that unexpected nostalgia wave. College ball was more fun, but in some ways it just didn't feel as good, ya know?
Me, a sword nerd, thought immediately about weight distribution on the bats. The more you have towards the handle, the far less you feel the actual weight.
i grew up in middle tennessee playing little league in the height of the composite bat era and one of the guys i played travel ball with had an uncle that worked at rawlings in their engineering department. we would get test sample bats before they were released to market, probably illegally, and some of those test bats we would get to use were insane. probably a miracle no one was injured looking back at it. shout out the 09 miken freak tho, that thing was an absolute monster.
Someone should have also told him that an Xbox One controller is only like 20 more dollars than what he paid for his 2000s Logitech he pulled out of the junk drawer too
@@UndercoverNormie I like that he wanted to make it seem futuristic with no wires and one button on the wall to turn the system on but they still had a bucket for people to shit in at one end of the tube.
That bat ruled my high school baseball team for 7 years, after it got banned someone drilled holes into and dressed it up like our mascot, for all I know it still goes to every game.
OH NO Baseball is getting better and more exciting! NCAA and MLB better do something about this quick or else people might start liking baseball more!!
When I was 12 years old in 1995 a white Louisville TPX bat came out in that bat seemed to be pretty special, whoever used it had great results in the first time I swung and I hit a home run and that happened to me my first home run. I was getting close to heading home runs already but the first game I use that bat my first at bat I hit a home run with it and hit all five of my home runs my 12-year-old here with it. I'll never forget the white Louisville TPX, a lot of people were using it and the one I was using was actually a 28 25 lol
seeing all these bat names is reviving so many little league memories.. i remember when composite bats started coming out including the orange stealth. Never had any idea it made this big of an impact! crazy. Excellent video!
Gold and Black Easton Reflex was insane as well. I coached Middle School like 10 years back and let my kids use it (there wasn’t any restrictions) and we had 4 kids hit HRs that year, and legit 330 down the line fields.
My first homerun was with a green stealth. It just FELT better off the bat. I was in high school 07-11, and all of our team bats all four years were stealth. We tried other things like the demarini vexxum, but there was a noticeable drop in our hitting stats
i remember those bats. they became so light that it actually started to hurt when you made proper contact. that ping though, legendary. the m1 garand of sports.
I only played a couple of seasons of Little League back in the early 2000s. I always wondered why we used metal bats, but pros didn't. I was told that they're banned in MLB because they hit the ball too far, but kids use them because it lets them hit further. That was my understanding as a child.
The biggest thing about composite bats, like the orange Stealth, from a player's perspective was that they gave the juiced performance of the old metal bats of the 90s but didn't hurt your hands.
Nothing puts a smile on my face more than the memories of hitting the ball farther with my cheap lead pipe of a bat than the rich kids with the expensive bats lol
I actually have an EXO Grid that I got from a garage sale and it was amazing when I used it in practice (never played competitively). Nowadays it's in rough shape in my garage with the end of the barrel missing (I taped the bottom of a Powerade bottle on it) and the grip replaced with bandage wrapping
I had a coach that insisted we all use the Orange Stealth. I was a smaller kid, so I preferred the drop 10 Green Stealth, but it is cool thinking back to swinging legend’s most infamous orange bat.
I can answer this for those wondering what it feels like to swing the stealth. I have an orange stealth, and it feels strange. It is very different from the newer bats. It is like a weird mix of an aluminum bat and a composite bat. It's stiffer than the new composite bats but definitely more flexible than just straight aluminum bats. What sets it apart from the newer bats is that it still has a lot of pop while maintaining durability, a light swing weight, and vibration dampening. If I were to compare it to new bats, i would say it is a mix between a usssa and a bbcor.
When I was in HS, we always had the latest bats Easton provided. The Stealth Comp actually caught on in 2006 and 2007. That silver and red one they released the first time around was just as good. The problem was they NEVER broke and they only got hotter the more swings you put on them. We did the total opposite of what people do with composite bats now. We'd have the entire team taking BP with two bats leading up to the season starting. We'd continue doing the same thing through out the season. I graduated 07, but we were given an orange Stealth Comp. I think the orange one actually released late in our season of 2007. We barely used it because the older Stealth Comp's we had were so much more broken in lol. Surprised I never got hurt playing both 3rd and 1st.
What a fantastic video, they're always done so well. I remember those Black Magic and TPX bats like it was yesterday. We went from hitting the completely garbage 20 year old metal bags in little leagues, and someone bought a new one for the first player pitch year. It was the most amazing difference in the world. Even bad swings seemed to crush it.
I was always partial to the B1 when I was younger but ended up having to start using B2s as the B1s I had bought had all broken and the B1s were getting harder to find. My dad was my biggest supporter and would look for these bats and find them slightly used for like 100-150 bucks in ebay bids that people were sleeping on. I think before state champs one year he bought me an extra b1 just in case cause he found one for like 90 bucks lol. Those bats were something else, I remember smashing a few homers in our youth league field like probably 280-290 feet when I was like 11 years old and I wasn't a big kid, probably like 3rd smallest on my team
I remember using it, it got better as you used it more. Some people were “rolling” this bat to give it even more pop. I’d say it is the best bat I used as a kid
I was playing Travel Ball during this time, and during a USSSA showcase in AZ, 90% of hitters in the 1-5 slots were all using the Stealth or Exo. But that orange stealth was the only one everyone called a literal cheater bat. That thing was spooky af, thank god I was an outfielder. Buddy living life as a third baseman probably has PTSD from holding a hot corner against Highschool and college hitters swinging those bats. 1990-2012 bats went crazy. It has been cool to see BBCOR find ways to emulate that performance at a relatively safer level. My Highschool district banned those bats around 2010 due to a pitcher getting put in a coma from a comebacker.
I had the blue easton stealth bat in high school, and I batted over .400 and hit a lifetime high 14 home runs, the bat got banned and I never hit more than 10 again. I'll never forget the feeling of hitting absolute monsters off the tee with ol' blue.
As someone who is required to use BBCOR bats, but has a Orange Stealth, this is 100% accurate. I have the Rawling Icon BBCOR, fully composite, and fully broken in. The Orange Stealth blows it out. BBCOR bats are so strict nowadays, but for good reason. I dont wanna die while pitching (literally.)
I don't play baseball (anymore really. Just some pickup stuff with my nephews) or even watch baseball that much but this channel is absolutely the best thing if you enjoy baseball in the slightest. Now I gotta brag to my older nephew about the bats we had back then and shame his BB core he was so confident about. Hahaha! I love them so much but he can be a punk!
I remember using the Reflex bats in high school and even those made me glad that I was behind the plate and not in front of it most of the time. Some of the balls hit in that time period were absolute lasers (2000-2003). These were drop 3 bats and were bad enough lol. I remember the legends of the Dimarini softball bats and one of the beer league guys where I grew up was using them to hit absolute bombs in slow pitch softball. It was wild to see and I definitely would have been playing in shallow left field as a third baseman against him lol.
I remember when all the companies switched to composite and the everyone was put at a drop 3 rule. We had a kid in our local that died from one of those bats. Worse part was that the kid that was hitting had been using a different bat all game and only hit a few slow grounders but came up to bat at the end of the game with a composite and absolutely drilled the third baseman.
Thank you BDE for the new video. Also on how different are the metal bats from the wooden ones? Cracking home runs with a metal bat sounds powerful but you're also vulnerable. Happy Holidays everyone
Basically, Easton applied Swingweight; Where the distribution of mass on the bat influenced how heavy the bat was to swing. So if a bat was 30 inches and weighed 25 ounces, depending on where most of the mass was centered, it determined the swingweight. More mass towards the tip of the bat = Higher swingweight = More difficult to swing = More powerful More mass towards the handle = Less influence on swingweight = Easier to swing = Higher swing speeds. I play tennis, so I already figured out what Easton did when he said that the bats felt "heavier" when swung despite weighing "lighter." The governing body was measuring the static weight, which is how much the bat weighed stationary. So anyway you organize it, it will still weigh whatever it was listed as. When swung is where the Pandora's Box of Bats and Rackets was opened.
I played little league in this era and I convinced my parents to buy me an expensive Easton. I didn't get the Orange Stealth because that was too much, but I got the green one. I immediately starting hitting homers easily. I was always a good hitter for being so skinny, but that season I came back hitting bombs at practice and my team was surprised. We went from last place (10th) the previous season to 2nd place all because we had a couple good bats and bomb hitters.
Yeah similar to my 12-year-old year and little league our coach had some money and purchased us the best bats possible there was a few kids on other teams that have their own private bat and they wouldn't let their teammates use it but our entire team got to use the good bats and even though we weren't the best team we won a lot of games and beat some of the best teams in the league really helped us.
Bro suing the STORE that sold the bat is next level. I get the grief and the trauma and wanting retribution, but don’t sue the mom and pop sporting goods store (potentially, for all I know it was freaking Galyan’s but still). It’s not like they are responsible for the bat. For all they knew it was just another dang metal bat among literally dozens. I mean my folks owned a sporting goods store in the early 2000s (it was attached to their skating rink but was still a full functioning sports shop) and I specifically remember them selling these bats. In fact bats were the money makers in addition to making jerseys for all the local little league teams. The number of bats we sold in the little shop was crazy. Along with hockey sticks cuz hockey was getting massively popular in Dallas right after the stars won the cup.. there’s absolutely no way my parents would have know to educate anyone on any bat unless they saw it in the news or got a special notice from the manufacturer. So annoying when people get sue hungry.. they don’t stop to consider the repercussions of their actions and who is ACTUALLY at fault. How could the store have possibly prevented this? And if they were successful, did the store close? Did they ruin lives? Because a manufacturer didn’t adequately warn / educate on their own bats? If the manufacturer didn’t place sufficient warnings then the store couldn’t possibly have known to educate. I doubt they managed to keep the store in the lawsuit but still they had no right suing them. The manufacturer? Sure. The league? But not the dang store. Ok that’s my soapbox thanks everyone
Composite doesn’t trick the test . Composite gets hotter the more it’s used . And if it’s cracked on 1 side just roll it around and use the other side it will still be hot or hotter than it was prior to cracking . And they may have also shaved the bat after it was sold to them . Shaved composite bats are all over parents do it in youth sports it’s insane .
Definitely remember my skinny barrel orange stealth, then the switch to BBCOR. The second year of BBCOR somehow felt pretty similar, but we were all like 14 and nobody had real power. Was always confused why NCAA was metal but showcase and college summer leagues were mostly wood.
I think the most juiced bat I ever saw/used was the Tidal Wave which was manufactured by Spalding in the late 80s. I am pretty sure it was actually designed as a softball bat, but hitting baseballs with it was unreal. The Tidal Wave used a fluid transfer system that would accelerate the speed of the bat head. Where I played in my teens at the time either had no restrictions on bats or they simply didn't bother to enforce them. Apparently, the TW actually weighed 37 ounces, but as long as you could actually get the bat to turn for you decently, once the liquid shifted toward the barrel, the weight worked completely in your favor. Even someone who didn't have much power could hit some bombs and if you had a little power, you suddenly felt like Jose Canseco with that bat in your hands because you could hit HUGE homers consistently. Fielding line drives coming off that bat was SCARY and it'd be a major miracle if nobody wasn't killed by one. I couldn't find any videos anywhere with the Tidal Wave, but there's actually a couple for sale on Ebay.
Golf uses a similar test to test to measure legality in clubs called smash factor, which is ball speed/clubhead speed. If that ratio exceeds 1.50, its ineligible for play for that user. BBCOR however is a different test that measures COR - Coefficient of Restitution. It just measures the maximum energy transfer a bat can have up to .50 mainly due to the material itself. Golf clubs can also be measured in COR - higher meaning more distance. The COR test is a good metric in baseball because it caps the energy transfer metric resulting in reasonable exit velocity but still allows athletically gifted people to hit hard by exerting more force.
I grew up playing baseball in the 70's and 80's and softball in the 90's. I was a pitcher, ss, and 2b. I despised the metal bats for what they were doing to the game, but I bought them any way to keep up with everyone else. I wish they were never invented.
I remember when composite bats came out, they felt dead right out of the package. We used to bang them on the metal poles of the dugout to "break them in." We lost 21-1 in the Texas State LL championship to the team that eventually got 3rd in the LLWS, they all used the Combat B1 Bomb and the entire lineup hit an HR that game. To be fair their pitchers threw straight up cheddar cheese balls for 12 year olds and they wouldve beat us with wood bats too. I just turned 30, this sucks.
Crazy to think I cut a few of these bats ends off to use the endcaps to make hot mens slowpitch softball bats. Been doing it for years with my pops with the old 90s demarinis, eastons, mikens, etc. Was pretty cool.
I kinda want to see something similar to an Olympic event with juiced bats. Like an Olympic level batter using a two-year old Orange Stealth and just tracking how far the balls go. I think people would be curious to see that.
I remember when the Orange Stealth first came out in 07, nobody really used them... but then they started getting popular a full year later when the next year's version had already come out (the all blue stealth). It took that long for people to realize that it literally took a full season of an entire team using this bat (THOUSANDS of hacks) to get it to enter "GOD MODE". But by that point, they were already somewhat rare to find.
The one we use in our videos is 25 years old and it still feels like it needs thousands more break-in swings.
I watch your video
Ain’t no way they spawned up
Better get to swinging in your leisure time, get that thing to barry bonds tier.
Surely there would be a way to simulate those swings... just with a pitching machine setup automated in some way, if you don't want to spend the hours in the cages yourself ;p
was looking for you in the comments instantly lol
Before this video, I never understood why the NCAA allows metal bats if the MLB does not. After this video, I DEFINITELY don't understand why the NCAA allows metal mats if the MLB does not...
Doesn’t make any sense.
You would think that they would want players to be used to wooden bats… instead of having to readjust due to many years of using juiced aluminum bats.
Cause the NCAA doesn't give a shit about sports other than football and men's basketball. Baseball doesn't make enough money for them to put nearly as much effort into it as they do for football and basketball.
My impression was that it was due to wooden bats being prone to breaking and that being considered riskier, certainly for catchers who get a faceful of splinters. But I could be mistaken.
I mean, as they show at the end, modern metal bats are basically the equivalent of wood anyway.
@@Tinil0 the weight distribution is different. So even if they get similar results you'd think they'd want players to get used to swinging wooden bats anyways just to get the feel for it
Got to find one of these in the goodwill bins 😂
They sell em for like 4 bucks.
They're probably all broken now. Anything made of carbon degrades from repeated stress like the titan sub.
They're ridiculous. It's like a spring board but more powerful. I got to play with one in highschool.
You'll still probably only hit it 100 feet instead of 75
Good idea
@@JordanHarristhe baseball bat bros made a vid with one a couple years ago or so
Considering Easton was trying to get around the certification process the name Orange Stealth seems appropriate
Surprised Syracuse didn't use it, assuming they fielded a baseball team
TDS is real.
@@sferrin2 Yup: Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show (TDS) on Mondays
In my baseball program, one of our kids was killed by getting hit in the head. That was one of the pictures with the players and coaches carrying a casket. My coach was one of the guys carrying it and he held the kids hand all the way to the hospital. Forever 11
RIP. I got hit in the forehead when I was 10 by a line drive and my personality changed. I'm lucky I wasn't more seriously hurt.
Crazy u watch the channel
Was he a pitcher? A ball came back right at him?
That’s horrible. I’m sorry for your loss. But even a standard ash -3 wood bat can produce exit velocity of 110 mph. Slowpitch bats can reach over 125mph velocity. It’s a dangerous game, you gotta pay attention and have quick instincts especially as an infielder.
Was that Kelsey? It’s so sad! I still say prayers for him and his family
growing up playing little league i just used whatever bat my dad bought me. turns out i was using black magics the entire time. he knew
Watching a Baseball doesnt exist video moments after it comes out rather than watching it after months is legendary
What the fuck kind of sentence is this?
Bats weren't the only thing that were juiced in the 90's
True dat.
Ha ha
The orange Easton Stealth is my favorite home intruder weapon
Funny. I have that EXO one for that same purpose!
I got a Louisville Slugger Attack for that purpose
That’s messed up lol
At first I thought you meant used for breaking into a place but now I realize you meant self defense lol
I can already see the burglars drop everything screaming and hustling to the front door the second they see the bat.
Now i understand what they mean when guys offer bat rolling services. they are using compression rollers to juice the composite bats by simulating seasons of use in a few hours/days
Never heard of that but not surprised it exists. This whole video is pretty shocking in general though.
I remember when my kid was playing travel ball. This was common.
I'll never forget the switch to BBCOR in the middle of high school. All of us were absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of pop in them coming from swinging BESR the whole time until that point. But BBCOR advanced fast af, and a few years later the difference was hardly noticeable. Either that, or we just eventually forgot what the prime BESR models felt like and just got used to the BBCOR's
The switch to bbcor was my junior year. None of us went to play college ball because we couldn't hit for shit
The worst bat I ever owned was first gen BBCOR omen had zero pop and had to use a wood bat the entire season
@tokeypokey yeah crying over kids getting killed and games playing slower than ever what a fucking accomplishment I wouldn't have played either with such bullshit changes, let athletes go at it with the best possible equipment bar none no excuses, bring back the fucking exciting bats 😂
That's so crazy. I played HS baseball during the easton stealth comp era. It's so interesting that everyone knew those things were duds off the rack and you had to "break them in" like a glove, but I never knew why until today.
I remember we used to take all day batting practices all using the same 3 bats
Man I was all about the EXO. If I used a stealth it was that blue one. A couple people had that orange stealth and you’re right that thing had no zing to it. Fast forward a year later, I came back to watch some friends that were still in HS and damn near the whole squad was using that orange stealth. Once you broke it in, it was butter coming off that barrel
I wish you'd used an actual composite bat sound instead of the aluminum "ding" each time the ball was hit with a composite bat. Anyone who's played with a composite bat instantly knows the unique thwack sound they make. Composite bats sound like an alien weapon being used.
It's a video bro not a damn 100 million dollar budget film
Yes composite don’t ding like metal . They crack or sound like gun shot
DUDE, that shot at 0:53 with the Stealth/Voodoo/Catalyst/EXO brings back so many amazing memories.... what a time to be alive and playing ball. I'm 30 next year, and man, do I miss those days :(
AND THE TRITON AT 11:25 !!!!! My God!!! Growing up playing in the early 2000's and till about 2018, my dad had one of the black/grey and red TPX from the 90's with the HUGE barrels, as well as an Easton Reflex and an Easton Black Magic, and I will NEVER forget the first time I went out with him to take BP and used the TPX and Reflex when I had only ever swung a BESR up till then. The difference was insane. Still have them too haha. Just bring them out for BP once in a blue moon at the park to have fun.
Same bro this vid brings all the nostalgia. Voodoo was my fav used that all through club and high school
@@JamesSchmidt713 Got me feeling ALL the nostalgia. Me and my Black Magic were INSEPERABLE coming up. Memories...
I turned 31 a few months ago so I gamed with that orange stealth in high school. And the rest of my team had an assortment of those other bats, too, so I also got hit by that unexpected nostalgia wave. College ball was more fun, but in some ways it just didn't feel as good, ya know?
“Where’s the bat that killed that guy?” I shouldn’t laugh at that but I did
The american spirit!
7:30 I love when the music changes lol
You know things are going to get serious when that music drops
Do you know the song name?
Yeah for real would love a playlist of the songs
Me, a sword nerd, thought immediately about weight distribution on the bats. The more you have towards the handle, the far less you feel the actual weight.
My day just got 10 times better after failing the f*ck out of a math test. 💀
"10 times better" Not sure we can trust your math there, though.
Math is for nerds
@@cs1458 Was about to comment 'no pun intended' but you beat me to it
Don't worry bro, many a great mind has had to repeat the 12th grade, maybe.
Focus on sports kid. You can always get your GED, or just tell employers you graduated. Trust me, they don’t call and check.
i grew up in middle tennessee playing little league in the height of the composite bat era and one of the guys i played travel ball with had an uncle that worked at rawlings in their engineering department. we would get test sample bats before they were released to market, probably illegally, and some of those test bats we would get to use were insane. probably a miracle no one was injured looking back at it.
shout out the 09 miken freak tho, that thing was an absolute monster.
Another banger from my favorite channel about a sport I never watch
Someone should have told Oceangate's CEO that composite materials have a tendency to "break in"
Someone should have also told him that an Xbox One controller is only like 20 more dollars than what he paid for his 2000s Logitech he pulled out of the junk drawer too
@@UndercoverNormie I like that he wanted to make it seem futuristic with no wires and one button on the wall to turn the system on but they still had a bucket for people to shit in at one end of the tube.
The stealth was pretty hot, but the bats of the early 2000s were even hotter like the redline and reflex that were banned during my hs playing days
Yea i had a redline and air attack before that. I was wrecking shit at 155 lbs 😂
That bat ruled my high school baseball team for 7 years, after it got banned someone drilled holes into and dressed it up like our mascot, for all I know it still goes to every game.
Imagine Barry Bonds using an orange stealth lol
My god. The ball would have never landed
Just once, I'd like to see a Derby at Coors Field, no humidor, BESR bats. Let's see how far a human being can possibly hit a baseball.
@@js1031how far do you think? I’m going to guess 550 to 600 feet. What’s the MLB record? I don’t know
OH NO Baseball is getting better and more exciting! NCAA and MLB better do something about this quick or else people might start liking baseball more!!
When I was 12 years old in 1995 a white Louisville TPX bat came out in that bat seemed to be pretty special, whoever used it had great results in the first time I swung and I hit a home run and that happened to me my first home run.
I was getting close to heading home runs already but the first game I use that bat my first at bat I hit a home run with it and hit all five of my home runs my 12-year-old here with it.
I'll never forget the white Louisville TPX, a lot of people were using it and the one I was using was actually a 28 25 lol
Exactly why this is my favorite baseball UA-cam channel. Keep crushing it man.
Eric Sim should buy this bat and make a vid lmao
They have it on Momentum.
They have a bunch of banned bats in their inventory, if you watch momentum and Sim vids from around 2022 you ll see it being used
I don't know who this Eric Sim fellow is, but I definitely would like to see Shohei Bloatani swing one.
walking into a sporting goods store and saying- "I want the bat that killed that guy" is crazy
seeing all these bat names is reviving so many little league memories.. i remember when composite bats started coming out including the orange stealth. Never had any idea it made this big of an impact! crazy.
Excellent video!
Gold and Black Easton Reflex was insane as well. I coached Middle School like 10 years back and let my kids use it (there wasn’t any restrictions) and we had 4 kids hit HRs that year, and legit 330 down the line fields.
My first homerun was with a green stealth. It just FELT better off the bat. I was in high school 07-11, and all of our team bats all four years were stealth. We tried other things like the demarini vexxum, but there was a noticeable drop in our hitting stats
i remember those bats. they became so light that it actually started to hurt when you made proper contact. that ping though, legendary. the m1 garand of sports.
baseball in the 90s and early 00s are just so wild and fun
Easton also made the hype fire that’s crazy
I only played a couple of seasons of Little League back in the early 2000s. I always wondered why we used metal bats, but pros didn't. I was told that they're banned in MLB because they hit the ball too far, but kids use them because it lets them hit further. That was my understanding as a child.
The biggest thing about composite bats, like the orange Stealth, from a player's perspective was that they gave the juiced performance of the old metal bats of the 90s but didn't hurt your hands.
as a hitter i loved these bats, as a pitcher they were unfair
Nothing puts a smile on my face more than the memories of hitting the ball farther with my cheap lead pipe of a bat than the rich kids with the expensive bats lol
My dad bought me one of these from a second hand sports store for my first year of kid pitch. Still have it, still bangs.
I actually have an EXO Grid that I got from a garage sale and it was amazing when I used it in practice (never played competitively). Nowadays it's in rough shape in my garage with the end of the barrel missing (I taped the bottom of a Powerade bottle on it) and the grip replaced with bandage wrapping
I’ll take it if you don’t want it
You make the GREATEST sports videos of anyone on youtube and i always look forward to every new one you post
I had a coach that insisted we all use the Orange Stealth. I was a smaller kid, so I preferred the drop 10 Green Stealth, but it is cool thinking back to swinging legend’s most infamous orange bat.
I can answer this for those wondering what it feels like to swing the stealth. I have an orange stealth, and it feels strange. It is very different from the newer bats. It is like a weird mix of an aluminum bat and a composite bat. It's stiffer than the new composite bats but definitely more flexible than just straight aluminum bats. What sets it apart from the newer bats is that it still has a lot of pop while maintaining durability, a light swing weight, and vibration dampening. If I were to compare it to new bats, i would say it is a mix between a usssa and a bbcor.
When I was in HS, we always had the latest bats Easton provided. The Stealth Comp actually caught on in 2006 and 2007. That silver and red one they released the first time around was just as good. The problem was they NEVER broke and they only got hotter the more swings you put on them. We did the total opposite of what people do with composite bats now. We'd have the entire team taking BP with two bats leading up to the season starting. We'd continue doing the same thing through out the season. I graduated 07, but we were given an orange Stealth Comp. I think the orange one actually released late in our season of 2007. We barely used it because the older Stealth Comp's we had were so much more broken in lol. Surprised I never got hurt playing both 3rd and 1st.
What a fantastic video, they're always done so well. I remember those Black Magic and TPX bats like it was yesterday. We went from hitting the completely garbage 20 year old metal bags in little leagues, and someone bought a new one for the first player pitch year. It was the most amazing difference in the world. Even bad swings seemed to crush it.
Easton orange stealth, combat b2, Easton red omen, and the black b1 or b3 I forget were insane
I was always partial to the B1 when I was younger but ended up having to start using B2s as the B1s I had bought had all broken and the B1s were getting harder to find. My dad was my biggest supporter and would look for these bats and find them slightly used for like 100-150 bucks in ebay bids that people were sleeping on. I think before state champs one year he bought me an extra b1 just in case cause he found one for like 90 bucks lol. Those bats were something else, I remember smashing a few homers in our youth league field like probably 280-290 feet when I was like 11 years old and I wasn't a big kid, probably like 3rd smallest on my team
When my little league took first place, we all used the rich kid's Reflex C-Core bat. It all makes sense now.
I remember using it, it got better as you used it more. Some people were “rolling” this bat to give it even more pop. I’d say it is the best bat I used as a kid
Yk it’s a good day when bde posts
I was playing Travel Ball during this time, and during a USSSA showcase in AZ, 90% of hitters in the 1-5 slots were all using the Stealth or Exo. But that orange stealth was the only one everyone called a literal cheater bat. That thing was spooky af, thank god I was an outfielder. Buddy living life as a third baseman probably has PTSD from holding a hot corner against Highschool and college hitters swinging those bats. 1990-2012 bats went crazy. It has been cool to see BBCOR find ways to emulate that performance at a relatively safer level.
My Highschool district banned those bats around 2010 due to a pitcher getting put in a coma from a comebacker.
I had the blue easton stealth bat in high school, and I batted over .400 and hit a lifetime high 14 home runs, the bat got banned and I never hit more than 10 again. I'll never forget the feeling of hitting absolute monsters off the tee with ol' blue.
Hockey Workouts + Those Stealths = Moonshots Id never imagine Id be able to hit. Insane fun with these things in HS man.
As someone who is required to use BBCOR bats, but has a Orange Stealth, this is 100% accurate. I have the Rawling Icon BBCOR, fully composite, and fully broken in. The Orange Stealth blows it out. BBCOR bats are so strict nowadays, but for good reason. I dont wanna die while pitching (literally.)
HS pitcher? Have you ever had a line drive straight back at you?
@extragoogleaccount6061 Oh yeah, many
I don't play baseball (anymore really. Just some pickup stuff with my nephews) or even watch baseball that much but this channel is absolutely the best thing if you enjoy baseball in the slightest. Now I gotta brag to my older nephew about the bats we had back then and shame his BB core he was so confident about. Hahaha! I love them so much but he can be a punk!
I remember using the Reflex bats in high school and even those made me glad that I was behind the plate and not in front of it most of the time. Some of the balls hit in that time period were absolute lasers (2000-2003). These were drop 3 bats and were bad enough lol.
I remember the legends of the Dimarini softball bats and one of the beer league guys where I grew up was using them to hit absolute bombs in slow pitch softball. It was wild to see and I definitely would have been playing in shallow left field as a third baseman against him lol.
To be fair, the voices calling to ban metal bats have been speaking since i was born in the 80s
That catalystx1 got me my first dinger.
Still got the bad boy.
I remember when all the companies switched to composite and the everyone was put at a drop 3 rule. We had a kid in our local that died from one of those bats. Worse part was that the kid that was hitting had been using a different bat all game and only hit a few slow grounders but came up to bat at the end of the game with a composite and absolutely drilled the third baseman.
Thank you BDE for the new video. Also on how different are the metal bats from the wooden ones? Cracking home runs with a metal bat sounds powerful but you're also vulnerable. Happy Holidays everyone
Low-key hated using one. I liked to hear that metal ping, but I dont doubt we won a few championships on the backs of those stealth bats! 😂
I want to see a era of Juiced Balls with Orange Stealth and steroids
this it not only the best baseball channel, but the best channel on YT. no Q.
the Exo, orange TPX Omaha and the Stealth were all filthy
Crazy they created all these bats for a sport that doesn’t exist
Can’t wait for Bat Bros to pull a Stealth out to end the year
bro I've never even watched a baseball game ever but your stuff is legendary
Wait until he learns about the hype fire
Basically, Easton applied Swingweight; Where the distribution of mass on the bat influenced how heavy the bat was to swing. So if a bat was 30 inches and weighed 25 ounces, depending on where most of the mass was centered, it determined the swingweight.
More mass towards the tip of the bat = Higher swingweight = More difficult to swing = More powerful
More mass towards the handle = Less influence on swingweight = Easier to swing = Higher swing speeds.
I play tennis, so I already figured out what Easton did when he said that the bats felt "heavier" when swung despite weighing "lighter." The governing body was measuring the static weight, which is how much the bat weighed stationary. So anyway you organize it, it will still weigh whatever it was listed as. When swung is where the Pandora's Box of Bats and Rackets was opened.
Best journalism in baseball easily
I played little league in this era and I convinced my parents to buy me an expensive Easton. I didn't get the Orange Stealth because that was too much, but I got the green one. I immediately starting hitting homers easily. I was always a good hitter for being so skinny, but that season I came back hitting bombs at practice and my team was surprised. We went from last place (10th) the previous season to 2nd place all because we had a couple good bats and bomb hitters.
Yeah similar to my 12-year-old year and little league our coach had some money and purchased us the best bats possible there was a few kids on other teams that have their own private bat and they wouldn't let their teammates use it but our entire team got to use the good bats and even though we weren't the best team we won a lot of games and beat some of the best teams in the league really helped us.
Crazy how there is so much information about a sport that doesn’t exist
Bro suing the STORE that sold the bat is next level. I get the grief and the trauma and wanting retribution, but don’t sue the mom and pop sporting goods store (potentially, for all I know it was freaking Galyan’s but still). It’s not like they are responsible for the bat. For all they knew it was just another dang metal bat among literally dozens. I mean my folks owned a sporting goods store in the early 2000s (it was attached to their skating rink but was still a full functioning sports shop) and I specifically remember them selling these bats. In fact bats were the money makers in addition to making jerseys for all the local little league teams. The number of bats we sold in the little shop was crazy. Along with hockey sticks cuz hockey was getting massively popular in Dallas right after the stars won the cup.. there’s absolutely no way my parents would have know to educate anyone on any bat unless they saw it in the news or got a special notice from the manufacturer. So annoying when people get sue hungry.. they don’t stop to consider the repercussions of their actions and who is ACTUALLY at fault. How could the store have possibly prevented this? And if they were successful, did the store close? Did they ruin lives? Because a manufacturer didn’t adequately warn / educate on their own bats? If the manufacturer didn’t place sufficient warnings then the store couldn’t possibly have known to educate.
I doubt they managed to keep the store in the lawsuit but still they had no right suing them. The manufacturer? Sure. The league? But not the dang store.
Ok that’s my soapbox thanks everyone
JUDGE NEED ONE OF THOSE BATS FOR THE POSTSEASON
It's always a good day when bde uploads
21-14 championship game 😂 got an actual chuckle out of that one thank you
Fire edit! Teach me how!
Playing 1B while holding a runner on the bag and then seeing a lefty come up to bat with THIS bat in his hand….. I guess it was my time to meet god….
So close to that 1 MILLION sub mark. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Seeing videos like this always makes me wonder how far bat tech would go if there were no regulations
1:40 that’s was my school’s field wtf 😭
Composite doesn’t trick the test . Composite gets hotter the more it’s used . And if it’s cracked on 1 side just roll it around and use the other side it will still be hot or hotter than it was prior to cracking . And they may have also shaved the bat after it was sold to them . Shaved composite bats are all over parents do it in youth sports it’s insane .
It's a bat so dangerous, it makes baseball not exist!
👏 to your research team… Unreal work, my friend
The orange stealth and the red stealth were goated in my early days of travel ball
"Velocity squared" is a helluva drug.
Definitely remember my skinny barrel orange stealth, then the switch to BBCOR. The second year of BBCOR somehow felt pretty similar, but we were all like 14 and nobody had real power. Was always confused why NCAA was metal but showcase and college summer leagues were mostly wood.
I think the most juiced bat I ever saw/used was the Tidal Wave which was manufactured by Spalding in the late 80s. I am pretty sure it was actually designed as a softball bat, but hitting baseballs with it was unreal. The Tidal Wave used a fluid transfer system that would accelerate the speed of the bat head. Where I played in my teens at the time either had no restrictions on bats or they simply didn't bother to enforce them. Apparently, the TW actually weighed 37 ounces, but as long as you could actually get the bat to turn for you decently, once the liquid shifted toward the barrel, the weight worked completely in your favor. Even someone who didn't have much power could hit some bombs and if you had a little power, you suddenly felt like Jose Canseco with that bat in your hands because you could hit HUGE homers consistently. Fielding line drives coming off that bat was SCARY and it'd be a major miracle if nobody wasn't killed by one. I couldn't find any videos anywhere with the Tidal Wave, but there's actually a couple for sale on Ebay.
The beginning of the video made me audibly gasp 😂
Nobody who plays baseball has ever understood physics.
Golf uses a similar test to test to measure legality in clubs called smash factor, which is ball speed/clubhead speed. If that ratio exceeds 1.50, its ineligible for play for that user. BBCOR however is a different test that measures COR - Coefficient of Restitution. It just measures the maximum energy transfer a bat can have up to .50 mainly due to the material itself. Golf clubs can also be measured in COR - higher meaning more distance. The COR test is a good metric in baseball because it caps the energy transfer metric resulting in reasonable exit velocity but still allows athletically gifted people to hit hard by exerting more force.
I grew up playing baseball in the 70's and 80's and softball in the 90's. I was a pitcher, ss, and 2b. I despised the metal bats for what they were doing to the game, but I bought them any way to keep up with everyone else. I wish they were never invented.
This is so fun awesome ridiculous had no idea this existed Thank you so much for this.
Buster Posey with that red Exo-Grid was absurd
I remember when composite bats came out, they felt dead right out of the package. We used to bang them on the metal poles of the dugout to "break them in." We lost 21-1 in the Texas State LL championship to the team that eventually got 3rd in the LLWS, they all used the Combat B1 Bomb and the entire lineup hit an HR that game. To be fair their pitchers threw straight up cheddar cheese balls for 12 year olds and they wouldve beat us with wood bats too. I just turned 30, this sucks.
what I don’t get is why companies make bats powerful like a bat is a bat, and you don’t want people dying under your name
The Aluminum Power Bat!
Crazy to think I cut a few of these bats ends off to use the endcaps to make hot mens slowpitch softball bats. Been doing it for years with my pops with the old 90s demarinis, eastons, mikens, etc. Was pretty cool.
I had a reflex c core, a Redline and then z core. God they were freaking awesome bats!
Yeah I remember playing HS ball in the late 90s and having an Easton redline
I kinda want to see something similar to an Olympic event with juiced bats. Like an Olympic level batter using a two-year old Orange Stealth and just tracking how far the balls go. I think people would be curious to see that.