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(More customer reviews)This bat first broke fell apart after 4 months of ball for my 10 year old son.Since I coach also, I know that the bat was not hit against any other metal fences, other bats etc. It first broke when the bat was turned upside down to knock off a bat weight and cracked the knob in two. I fixed that with PC7 after Rawlings wouldn't even agree to put it under review for defective materials. After 2 weeks of tournament play, it cracked in a large V-Shape after hitting a ball on the sweet spot and basically was useless after that. I originally recieved this bat as a replacement for their Rush Composite that our Cal Ripken umpires banned since it sounded like their was loose material sloshing around inside the bat. I sent that back to Rawlings for an engineering review and they never evaluated it, they just sent me the Rawlings 5150. When I spoke with Rawlings rep, she said I should have been happy with the deal price I got over ebay from SPC Sports, an official Rawlings distributor. She intimated that because I got a great deal I should have been happy with the short time I could use the bat with it's sub par performance. Basically by the time I got it broken in following their procedures...it broke under game conditions. The 5150 was not a factory second, it was a first run retail ready bat and miserably failed under normal game conditions for 10 year olds. If their manufactured product can't hold up to 10 year olds swinging and hitting a ball they shouldn't even make or market their bats. The policy of replacement bats not having any warranty is absurd and just a marketing move around standing behind their brand. You either make a great product and stand behind it or you don't. Whether I was a smart bidder on ebay or not is not paramount to the products failure, yet somehow I am supposed to be happy with the four months of play I got out of the 5150? Parents spend a lot of money and if the 5150 fails in a regular game (not batting practice, not hitting non leather covered balls, not using it above a certain temperature...all of the "special" conditions imposed upon their bats) This is a bat. It is designed to hit fast moving cylindrical objects called baseballs and the year warranty is so fraught with fraudelent technicalities that it is a crime.
Rawlings wouldn't even put it under a microscope to evaluate it, nor offer any other type of reasonable solutions. In my opinion, let my story be one of caution to other parents. Don't by the marketing hype and spend upwards of 200 dollars on the Rawlings 5150 as you will be sorry and stuck with a broken bat. Maybe they should do some more research, build a better bat and not rush to market with inferior materials that won't hold up.Rawlings 5150 X-Treme Comp Baseball Bats
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