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By Bat Digest
Updated August 10, 2023
The bat is built for hitters who appreciate big swings and can appreciate the balance of the bat feeling more towards the knob than the hands.
The 2016 Easton MAKO XL is a top-shelf performance bat built on the same chassis of the Easton MAKO. As such, the bat has a track record of changing the nature of performance bats post-BBCOR and BPF era.
In 2015, the end-loaded two-piece composite from Easton took a split. The Senior League and BBCOR versions continued with the XL1 name while the little league version took the new expanded MAKO barrel onto an endloaded two-piece composite and called it the MAKO XL. Previous to that split, the Easton Omen was Easton's response to those players looking for a composite barrel in a bigger swinging bat. For 2016, Easton has abandoned the XL1 name altogether for the MAKO XL name. With that change, all bats are formerly known as the XL1 come with an expanded barrel size like the MAKO XL upgrade in Little League from 2014 to 2015.