Rawlings | Adirondack 271 Wood Bat | Hard Maple | Multiple Sizes

This inexpensive bat appears to be good quality. Product is as described. Looking for a slightly thinner handle than bat I was using. I haven’t played in several years so very good alternative to sone more expensive models by various brands

Muy contenta para mi sobrino

Excelente

Good for the money

In some ways it may not be fair to write a bad review for a bat because it broke - because after all, any wood bat can/will break eventually. But as someone who has played baseball my whole life and broken many bats, I've never experienced one breaking so easily. And on top of that, Rawlings saying that they couldn't replace it because there are 15 ball marks instead of 12 (their arbitrary limit) was pretty frustrating. Let me explain..When I say I've never seen a bat break so easily, I mean that it broke extremely quickly (within ~15 pitches) and it broke on a pitch close to the center of the barrel - I wasn't jammed and I didn't hit it right off the end. You cannot convince me that a bat, even one priced at a reasonable $50, should be able to break that easily. So either every bat of this model is just a terrible bat or the specific one I got was defected in some way.Beyond all of this, I was utterly disappointed in the responses I got from Rawlings. They had me check the bat to see if there were 12 or less ball marks, which is the seemingly arbitrary number they use to determine a defected bat or now. I had about 14-15 marks on my bat, which I thought would be close enough for Rawlings to cut me a break. Nope - they did offer that I could send it in for them to double check, but it'd be very unlikely they'd replace it and I'd have to pay the shipping to send it in.All in all a frustrating and disappointing experience from a company that I had previously been very brand loyal too. I still use my same Rawlings infielders glove that I got in little league, now ~13 years later. Whenever I need any baseball equipment I've always looked at Rawlings first just because I love my glove so much. I was thinking I should get a new outfielders glove and was looking at Rawlings. After this experience I'm unfortunately going to look elsewhere.