This almost endures that high school bats will have an exit speed of 93 mph even though the NFHS rule does not specifically require it. Once the NCAA adopted the rule change, the rippling effect began. NFHS was the next to require these standards. You can expect all youth leagues to do the same, although finding a bat with higher performance standards than the NCAA and NFHS will be nearly impossible even if your youth league does not require these standards. Next year -3 will be the standard.
Statistics do show a rise in injury at all levels due to the higher performance bats.
Even if you don't believe that you certainly can't dismiss the common sense idea that these bats do put our kids at a higher risk for injury than ever before. It's a shame that once again moms and dads get shafted by this turn of events. There's not much that can be done since this change was way overdue. Sincerely, Jim Porter Display summaries of other articles about rules . Search the Web.