Thad, those are the reasons that they're not used in the Majors or I believe AAA or any of the other minor leagues. I'm not sure if any of the professional leagues affiliated with Major League Baseball use them. A wooden bat is a lot cheaper than an aluminum bat, but it has one big disadvantage. Especially over a season. They break. They had to address those issues in college baseball because them very things happened. Especially the homeruns. The aluminum bat manufacturers kept improving the bats for distance and homeruns went up a lot during the 1990's. I haven't heard if what they did to the aluminum bats has worked recently. The were going to impose some sort of way to restrict how fast a ball could come off the bat after being struck. Tests and measurements, facts and figures, then of course the contracts with the bat manufactureres. I believe some of the colleges cried foul because of all the money invested in the bats, so it was supposed to be phased in these last few years as they acquired the new bats to conform with the new rules.