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How to Choose the Right Size Bat

By Alex Flanagan, I Love To Watch You Play, 04/25/18, 12:00PM PDT

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If you have never bought a baseball bat, you are in for a treat. The first time I ran into a sporting goods store to pick one up for my son I was overwhelmed.

I had no idea all of the things I would need to know to match my child to a bat. If you search the internet, there are a number of articles with so much bat buying advice you can find yourself paralyzed with information overload.

We asked father, former MLB player and current Oakland A’s quality control coach Mark Kotsay to help us with the basics of buying a bat.