According to the ESPN.com the average major league baseball team is worth 744 million dollars. The average team went up 23 percent from the 2012 season. The MLB media generates more than 600 million dollars in revenue. The national television revenue for baseball is around 12.4 billion dollars including, Fox, and ESPN. The average major league baseball player makes 3.31 million dollars a year, which is the second highest paid players of the four major sports leagues, according to yahoo.com.
In order for all these players to make money and play the way they do, they need good equipment. Most of the players have sponsors or people who represent them like many well-known brands. Many of these sponsors will give them like bats, balls, or gloves to try out to see what they like the best and to represent the company. If they do not like the object they got from them they can send it back and get a new one they like to use. The players have to go by what they like best and how it feels to them when they play. If a player has a glove that they don’t like it’s not going to feel right when they go to catch the ball and they might drop it, causing them and the team they’re playing for money.
A big factor in baseball is the bats. There are around a hundred different types of bats, including different brands and if they are aluminum, wood or BBCOR. Many of the high schools just recently started using wood. It all depends on the player and how they feel about the production of the bat. Some player prefer wood, others would never use a wood bat in their life. The differences in the bats are huge. Many players would argue that the performance of the bats make the choice between them easier. The different brands in bats depend on the price for e...
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... Statistics show bats made out of maple started to increase at a very high rate in the baseball world after Barry Bonds broke the home run record while using his own maple wood bat. These wood bats are a great achievement I baseball but they are started to decline because of the aluminum and BBCOR bats. People are starting to like the BBCOR bats more because of the “pop” they make when connected to that right pitch.
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Wolff, R. (2010, August 8). What The Heck Is A BBCOR Bat?. In Ask Coach Wolff. Retrieved March 19, 2014, from http://www.askcoachwolff.com/2010/08/08/what-the-heck-is-a-bbcor-bat
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