RIP-IT Baseball Bat Reviews
RIP-IT Baseball still exists, but they don’t make baseball or fastpitch bats anymore. They’ve narrowed down their production, far as we can tell, to protective equipment in the fastpitch space. From the early 2010’s through 2017 they produced an impressive line of BBCOR and USSSA bats.
They tried to pioneer the smart bat world with a Kickstarter program. Once that failed to gain traction, they appeared to fold on the bat industry entirely and never made a serious push again. Still, many of their bats can be found on the secondary market and more than a few are worth serious consideration—especially at the price points you can find them now.
We reviewed each of RIP-ITs bats when they were produced. You can find those below.
RIP-IT
Table key is
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Key
- Score is calculated by the categories of tech (.05), durability (.1), resell (.05), player feedback (.25), performance/ev (.25), relevance (.2), and demand (.1).
- MOI is the mass moment of inertia. Better known as swing weight. It is a physics measuremnt of the strenth required to swing a bat. See more here.
- Tech scores the technical advancements within the bat as decided by us.
- Durab. rates the durability of the bat on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Resell rates the resale value of the bat on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Feedbck is player feedback and is rated on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Perf is the performance of the bat measured by our data and exit velocity caputres, on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Rlvnc (relevance) rates how the bat’s sizes and swing weight are generally useful to the public of the bat on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Dmnd rates the public demand of the bat on a scale from 1 to 5.
- Diam. is the claimed max diamter of a bat.