Question: what is the difference between maple ash and birch bats?
Answer: The biggest difference between a Maple Bat and a Birch Bat is the flex. Many players say that a Birch Bat is the perfect mix of a Maple Bat and an Ash Bat, because it has the hardness of Maple, but the flex of Ash. ... Birch definitely has more flex than Maple, but it doesn't compare to the flex of Ash.