Batting Cage Nets for Softball and Baseball
Improve your hitting while getting safe and reliable long lasting performance batting cage nets. Learn about indoor and outdoor batting cage net designs, materials, and how to determine strength and ratings from online baseball equipment specialists.
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Batting Cage Nets – The ‘Cocoon' Where Great Hitters Are Made
Imagine the thousands of pitches and thousands of hours of practice hitting taken by the greatest of hitters, such as Pete Rose, George Brett, Ted Williams or Ty Cobb. Drilling endlessly in search of the ‘perfect swing', these players relied on batting cage nets to create a ‘virtual' game environment so that they could face high volumes of pitches from live throwers or pitching machines. You're looking for hitting results, so look at what's necessary in the selection of batting cage nets.
- When Will It Break. Batting cage nets, like money matters, comes down ‘to the numbers'. Batting net material is rated according to its ability absorb impact from baseball, measured in pounds per square inch. Manufacturers must provide you with a technical description and specifications for their particular batting cage netting material, especially the projected ‘regular and customary use' point in time when the material will only absorb 60 pounds of force. At that date point, your batting cage net is then obsolete and will not protect your players from breaks or tears, and will have to be replaced.
- It's All In The Twine. Baseball and softball batting cage nets can be manufactured in a number of synthetic polymer materials, including polyethylene, HDPE, nylon, and Kevlar along with a variety of additives to alter the polymer bond structure in order to resist ultraviolet light or water absorption. For youth and many amateur team situations, your batting cage nets should be rated no less than #18, which compares to a rating of over #40 for the heaviest use by professional baseball teams. In twine sizing, #18 is 50% as thick as #36, so make sure that your batting cage nets range between #18 and #30 as a general guide.
Batting Cage Net Frame Designs . Getting your net material and gauge is critical, however it does not complete your needs. You'll need to form a basic understanding of the bating cage net frame itself, looking for a light weight tubing material, but also one that offer a large number of cross members in the uppermost framing. Cross members carry and transfer the weight of your batting cage netting across the entire structure which have dimensions of 12 feet wide by 14 feet wide by as much as 70 feet in length. It's critical that your netting and frame complement each other so that your nets hang or drape vertically, and do not ‘pull in' due to poor frame design. Batting cage netting that pulls in or billows will not only be distractive to hitters, but you're also setting up some safety and risk issues.
- Outdoor Versus Indoor Batting Cage Nets. If you're certain that your baseball batting cage will be left indoor for pre-season and special practice situations, then you can select low cost nylon batting cage nets. Moving outdoors, you won't get the long wear from nylon, which is water absorbent leading to rot while also absorbing UV sunlight radiation to accelerate deterioration, unless treated with special additives. Look instead to polymers such as HDPE, polyethylene or Kevlar which do not absorb water and often include agents to alter their chemistry, resulting in UV resistance and years of hard wearing outdoor use.
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