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Bat Duel: DeMarini Voodoo vs. Easton S2

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Two-piece hybrid bats (composite handle/aluminum barrel) were first introduced to the game more than 10 years ago and are now one of the most popular bat designs on the market. Two-piece hybrids don’t need to be broken in and offer the player the best of both materials: the strength of a composite handle and responsiveness of an aluminum barrel. Lets take a look at two of the more popular two-piece hybrid bats. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this blog’s main event, the 2013 DeMarini Voodoo vs. the 2013 Easton S2.

Hitting out of Hillsboro, Oregon and featured in Adult, Senior League and Youth models, the 2013 DeMarini Voodoo.

Keys to Victory: The 2013 Voodoo is the highest performing Voodoo to date. The new TR3 F.L.O. composite provides a stiff feel which helps to harness your power at contact and causes the ball to explode off the responsive X10 alloy barrel. This year’s model has the largest sweetspot of any Voodoo before it.

Weight Distribution: Slight End Load
Design: Two-Piece Hybrid
Handle: TR3 F.L.O. Composite
Barrel: X10 Alloy

Hitting out of Van Nuys, California and featured in Adult, Senior League and Youth models, the 2013 Easton S2.

Keys to Victory: The 2013 Easton S2 features  the new SIC Black Carbon handle, which is stiffer than the 2012 model, resulting in an increase in durability and pop. It is one of the most balanced two-piece hybrids around which results in maximum bat speed. The more bat speed you have, the more power you have.

Weight Distribution: Balanced
Design: Two-Piece Hybrid
Handle: SIC Black Carbon Composite
Barrel: THT100 Scandium Alloy

One thing’s for sure, both the DeMarini Voodoo and Easton S2 are top of the line when is comes to performance and comfort at the plate, but there can only be one winner. And the winner is…? That’s for you to decide. Give us your feedback and let us know which bat you prefer.

Check out Easton and DeMarini’s full line of high-performing bats at JustBats.com and submit your photos or videos using either of these awesome hybrid bats for a chance to win a $25 or $300 gift card in our JustBats.com Gift Card Giveaway!

Monday Meet And Greet: Lemmy K

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Every Monday we’d like you to meet someone new around here at JustBats.com. Get to know us a little better! Meet Lemmy! Lemmy works in the IT department and makes sure all the computers at JustBats.com are running smoothly! Here is what makes Lemmy tick.

1. How long have you worked here at JustBats.com?
3 years
2. What are some of your responsibilities in the IT Department?
Ensuring the network and servers are up and run flawlessly.
3. What do you enjoy most about being in the IT Department at JustBats.com?
Working with a great and fun team. We also get to use new and ever-changing technologies.
4. What are some challenges you face in IT?
Malware on personal computers and laptops.
5. What’s your favorite memory since working at JustBats.com?
When we placed red tape on all the servers’ green LEDs (you normally don’t want to see red light on servers) to prank my manager.
6. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
Spending time with family and building robots with my son.
7. Any advice for people coming in to your line of work?
Be adaptable and ready to learn because IT changes very frequently.
8. What gets you laughing the hardest?
My son doing the chicken dance.
9. What’s your favorite sport and team?
It’s a toss up between Football with the Chiefs and Soccer with Sporting KC.

Monday Meet And Greet: Shawn S

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Every Monday we’d like you to meet someone new around here at JustBats.com. Get to know us a little better! Meet Shawn! Shawn works in the IT department and helps make sure everyones computers and equipment are running smooth! Here is what makes Shawn tick.

1. How long have you worked here at JustBats.com?
594 days, as of today (Monday).
2. What are some of your responsibilities in the IT department?
I ensure that the workstations and other office equipment are in working order.
3. Tell us about some of the challenges you face everyday dealing with computers and anything IT related.
The largest challenge of my day-to-day job is the highly differentiated tasks. I’ll be working with printers, scanners, workstations, servers, and shipping equipment all in the same day – sometimes before noon. I enjoy the high variability of my job.
4. What’s your favorite thing about working at JustBats.com?
The people and the amenities. I’d expand but it’d be all sappy.
5. What made you want to work with electronics and computers for a living?
I’ve been working on or with computers since ’95 when my dad got his. I immediately took the case off of it to see what was in there, I was hooked.
6. Any advice for people coming in to your line of work?
Don’t get stuck doing one thing, try to learn as much as you can about everything. There is so much new technology coming out all the time that will be mainstream in the near future.
7. What’s your favorite memory so far since you have been at JustBats.com?
I’m bombarded everyday with positive things and I dislike picking favorites in nearly everything. So I’ll pick working here.
8. When there is an issue with a computer, what is your process for finding a solution to the problem?
It’s a process of questions which when answered fix the issue. One of the below questions if answered should lead to a fix.
What isn’t working properly or at all? What happened before the issue occurred? How is it supposed to work? Are there any errors that can hint at what happened?
 9. What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I enjoy spending time with friends/family, playing video games with friends, and doing nothing.

Rip-It Reaper

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Are you in a single wall alloy league? Do you want an awesome bat? Well, if you answered yes to both of those questions, then stop by JustBats.com and check out the RIP-IT Reaper bat. This bat is specially designed for players in single wall alloy leagues. The Reaper uses RIP-IT’s Beyond Composite Technology (BCT) that feels and sounds like a composite bat, but guaranteed to out perform them. There is a lot of chemistry involved in making sure this technology lives up to its standards and meets your needs. BCT uses Advanced Tempered Ballistic Alloy in a bonded-layer system where layers are fused together to create amazing strength and durability. If you’re anxious to get a bat that will perform at an optimal level right out of the wrapper, then this is the bat for you! BCT does not require players to break in their bats, how cool is that? Also featured on this bat is a memory foam grip so you know it’s going to be comfortable. Come pick up this cutting edge bat from JustBats.com!

Mattingly V-Force Youth Bat

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New from Mattingly Baseball is the V-Force. This bat is a great bang for your buck, and you’ll understand what we mean by “bang” when you feel the power generated by this bat. Made from Mattingly’s MB7500 Performance Alloy, this bat is made for the serious player. This bat features Direct Power Transfer Technology which means it has a stiff handle for better energy transfer to the ball. This bat generates some serious power swing after swing. Come grab yours today from JustBats.com!

Core Value: Embrace Innovation

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What’s innovation mean? Innovation is the action or process of innovating. What’s innovating mean? Innovating means to make changes in something established, by introducing new methods, ideas, or products. Now we are getting somewhere. What does innovation mean to us at JustBats.com and how to we go about quantifying our innovation decisions? Sometimes, innovation actually starts out with, “wouldn’t it be cool if we could…….,” but most of the time there’s a process JustBats.com uses.

Innovation means to JustBats.com a mixture of planning, research, and trial and error. That’s our process. JustBats.com performs detailed planning to make sure growth is managed properly, but last year, JustBats.com hit some limits. For example, the search on JustBats.com was good, but under load it slowed down. The search needed to be less affected by load, so the team found a scalable solution that exceeded our expectations. If you ask the programming team, they had lots of trial and error getting the new search index online, but their efforts can be seen when you use JustBats.com and search for Baseball Bats or Softball Bats. It’s very fast. Google-fast. That was by no accident.

In quantifying innovation, I like to start with clarifying the desired result(s). The clearer this is, the easier the innovation will be to implement.  In taking something that does not exist, to something that does, requires lots of questions. Asking the questions means we care about the result(s). There’s no perfect one-size-fits-all innovation-cycle for every company, but JustBats.com has setup many ways to listen to our customers/employees and is making sure the technology supports its primary aim of making customers for life.

Doing quality assurance checks on the mobile platforms for JustBats.com.

Unbreakable!

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Baum Research & Development Company is the leading manufacturer of wood composite baseball bats in the world. Baum®Bats hit, feel and look exactly like professional wood bats, and the Baum®Bat’s amazing durability outlasts wood 200-500 to one.

Major League Baseball instructed Baum Research & Development to walk a fine line by creating a durable bat while allowing it to break at the upper limits of thick handled Major League wood. Baum Bats are the pioneers in research to evaluate the performance of all bats including metal, wood, and composite bats, both for baseball and softball.

The Patented AAA PRO model Baum®Bat is the only true high-tech wood composite bat, approved for minor league game use by Major League Baseball. It is also approved for NCAA and NFHS use.

Get your Baum Bat AAA Pro today from JustBats.com!