Essential Equipment
In your baseball bag, you need to have three key things:
Bat Size & Weight Guide
This is a bat size chart that you can use to find the perfect bat size for you. Next there is the weight.
What is a "Drop"?
What drop means is whatever the drop is, that number is subtracted by the total length in ounces. So basically, If a bat is thirty inches drop ten, then the bat would weigh twenty ounces.
| Age Group |
Recommended Drop |
| 5 - 7 years old |
Drop 11 or 12 |
| 8 - 11 years old |
Drop 10 (or Drop 8 if transitioning into travel ball) |
| 12 years old |
Drop 8 |
| 13 - 14 years old |
Drop 5 |
| Older than 14 |
Stick with Drop 5 and Drop 3 |
Bat Recommendations by Age & Level
As for the specific bat, that varies on your age and what level you are playing at.
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Tee-Ball (5-6 years old): If you are just starting out, and you are just starting tee-ball at around five or six years old, I would recommend a Rawlings prodigy as a good bat to buy, but if you would like a real bang for your buck, I would recommend any marucci bat. Just make sure the bat you buy has a USA symbol on it.
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Coach Pitch (7-8 years old): If you are seven to eight and doing coach pitch, I would still recommend those marucci’s, and maybe if you're willing to spend some money, you can go out and buy an Easton Hype Fire, which you will be seeing more as you get older.
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Real Pitchers (9-11 years old): If you are nine to eleven years old and you are starting to face real pitchers, this is when the bats start getting more expensive. If you are willing to spend money, I would buy either a Hype Fire or a Rawlings Icon. If you don’t want to spend that much, then I would recommend buying either a marucci F5 or a marucci catX or catX2.