Photomatching help on Martin Prado bat

[lakeerie92]

I have a 2010 Martin Prado Marruci bat, but I haven't found too many photos to consider it a photo match. It has a lot of distinguishing characteristics. I haven't seen many if any Prado bats with the specific tape job on the handle and it has several ink transfers and rack marks. If anybody could help me it would be appreciated.

[kylehess10]

Do you have any time period of when it could've been used? Or is 2010 all you know?

[yanks12025]

Kyle,
Was wondering if you recieved my email about the Adam Laroche bat. Like i said if you don't have the time it's fine. Thanks again

[CampWest]

I haven't seen many if any Prado bats with the specific tape job on the handle

If you cannot find Prado using any taped bats... You might need to start looking for teammates using his bat. Is there any knob markings?

[lakeerie92]

I don't have a time period other than 2010. The only marking on the bat are the imprinted 14 and the date it was made (8/17/09). There is a possibility it could have been used in 09 but it came from the Braves as a 2010 bat. Prado has used tape on his bats before, but most of the time he doesn't. I know of one other black LVS that was taped by him

[lakeerie92]

It looks as if it might possibly be April. More so the second half of April if that helps Kyle. I have seen a couple images that resemble tape on the handle but nothing definitive. It is really hard to tell because the tape blends in

[kylehess10]

yanks12025 - Yep...I got your e-mail and I'm still working on it. I've been going through video of LaRoche and it's just really tough getting clear screenshots of his bats since Nexdef no longer works for anyone. I'm trying to get something that is a definite match, and I'll forward it along to you.



lakeerie92 - The Braves have lots of mix ups when it comes to that. I bought a Francoeur helmet last year that was sold to me as a 2009 gamer when it ended up being photomatched to the 2007 season. So it really is possible that it came from 2009, but I'll check 2010 because I do have some high-res images of him from a few games in April, and I know he does tape SOME of his bats, just not all.

[lakeerie92]

I found an image close to it on 4/28 against the Cardinals, but that was all I could get out of multiple sites

[lakeerie92]

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