Check out this video of baseball’s hottest prospect – Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals – using a 36-inch, 47-ounce bat during an indoor batting practice at Bat-R-Up in Las Vegas back in December. Thanks to Hardball Talk for posting this video and making it easy for me to find it.
The comment chain of this blog post on HBT starts getting into the specific benefits/detriments of having players use an oversized bat during batting practice. One commenter compares this BP strategy to “swinging with a donut on the bat.”
