Dating Marucci Bats

[joelsabi]

How do you date Marucci bats? Thanks in advance.

[grenda12]

My Marucci bat has the date on the knob, wt. and length and the players number.

[treant985]

I thought most had the date stamped on the knob in some fashion...

[joelsabi]

hmmm... mine looks like this.

[joelsabi]

hmmm... mine looks like this.

so that discounts it being from the 2007.

[treant985]

hmmm... mine looks like this.

hmmm..a #5 marucci thats 34" and 31.9oz...wonder whose bat that could be.

I think they might not have put dates on some of the earliest models, probably when Howard and Pujols first started ordering.

[5kRunner]

Joel,
Your Pujols "Frankenbat" was discussed here: http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=30734&highlight=pujols

and here:
http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=29167&highlight=pujols

The barrel is from 2008 and the handle is from 2007, or vice versa.

[joelsabi]

Joel,
Your Pujols "Frankenbat" was discussed here: http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=30734&highlight=pujols

and here:
http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=29167&highlight=pujols

The barrel is from 2008 and the handle is from 2007, or vice versa.

No its a Marucci.

[5kRunner]

No its a Marucci.

I know its a Marucci. I called a Frankenbat because that is how Jeff Scott referred to it. As in Frankenstein. Your seller took a handle from one bat and glued it to a barrel from another.

And I was incorrect. The barrel is from 2009 and the handle is from 2008.

[treant985]

The knob in the original post here is not from the 'frankenbat.' This bat has no date on the knob, while the frankenbat one specifically DID have a date (thus it was so easy to tell that the handle was from 2008 but the barrel--with the ink dot--was from 2009).

[joelsabi]

I know its a Marucci. I called a Frankenbat because that is how Jeff Scott referred to it. As in Frankenstein. Your seller took a handle from one bat and glued it to a barrel from another.

And I was incorrect. The barrel is from 2009 and the handle is from 2008.

Gotcha.

I did not buy that bat but am interesting in knowing how to date Marucci Bats. I discovered I know almost nothing about bats except for LVS.

Theres no way I can afford to add a new player to my collection, especially Pujol.

I do however enjoy reading those Pujol threads tonight and could not resist.

Hopefully people didnt seriously think I bought that bat. I wonder what happen to it.

[joelsabi]

My Marucci bat has the date on the knob, wt. and length and the players number.

Thanks for the information. So does every Marucci always have a date on the knob or was this something established later in its production.

[5kRunner]

Gotcha.

I did not buy that bat but am interesting in knowing how to date Marucci Bats. I discovered I know almost nothing about bats except for LVS.

Theres no way I can afford to add a new player to my collection, especially Pujol.

I do however enjoy reading those Pujol threads tonight and could not resist.

Hopefully people didnt seriously think I bought that bat. I wonder what happen to it.

The joke is on me. :p

Thought you bought it.

[joelsabi]

The joke is on me. :p

Thought you bought it.

That Frankenstein Bat beats the cake. Never laughed so much when I saw the creation.

[grenda12]

Thanks for the information. So does every Marucci always have a date on the knob or was this something established later in its production.

I want to say yes, but I am not 100% sure.

[cigarman44]

The knob in the original post here is not from the 'frankenbat.' This bat has no date on the knob, while the frankenbat one specifically DID have a date (thus it was so easy to tell that the handle was from 2008 but the barrel--with the ink dot--was from 2009).


This is the same knob. If you blow up the photo from his ebay listing you can see 8/21/08 on both knobs

[cigarman44]

This is the same knob. If you blow up the photo from his ebay listing you can see 8/21/08 on both knobs


And you can see it in the pic that was first posted in this thread if you look close. All the same knob.

[treant985]

And you can see it in the pic that was first posted in this thread if you look close. All the same knob.

My mistake. Couldn't see it in the first pic, plus I thought that joelsabi actually had this 'dateless' bat in his own collection.

[joelsabi]

This is the same knob. If you blow up the photo from his ebay listing you can see 8/21/08 on both knobs

does frankenstein own sand paper?

[cigarman44]

My mistake. Couldn't see it in the first pic, plus I thought that joelsabi actually had this 'dateless' bat in his own collection.


No prob. It's hard to see and I think I have good eyes :D. I think when he stained it all to looked the same after he "repaired" it, it made it harder to read. Plus he could have sanded on it too...All the pics have the same black mark below the number 1 as well.

[allstarsplus]

does frankenstein own sand paper?

[QUOTE]Gotcha.

I did not buy that bat but am interesting in knowing how to date Marucci Bats. I discovered I know almost nothing about bats except for LVS.
QUOTE]

If you look at the knob as a clock and look at what would be 2 o'clock on the knob on the extreme outter edge there are 3 distinct sratches that match up in both knobs.

Just my opinion. KingJammy needs to get out the pointer and circle the similarities.

[cards-bats]

Same bat knob. I reversed the image and the dates are still there. Bad photo - no sand job that I can see.