(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo provided by Hoofddorp Pioniers)
 Meerlease Pioniers signs agreement with YaYa Bats
Nederlands
 HOOFDORP (Neth.) -
Dutch big league-team Meerlease Pioniers has signed an agreement with Slovakian-based YaYa Bats for the 2019 season, the club announced on Monday (April 11).
Hoofddorp Pioniers and the bats-provider agreed to work together after the YaYa bats were successfully tested last year by Omron Pioniers, the farm-team of the club, which plays in the second highest league.
YaYa Bats is an European bats-provider, which includes making Beech-bats, and was founded by Andy Weissman.
The company has been succesfully in the past few years, providing bats to teams in the German 1.Bundesliga, but also to teams in the Czech Repbulic, France and Spain.
In the past months, the bats were also used in the regular season of the Australian Baseball League.
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In a press release, Pioniers states that the experiences of last season, the experiences of other clubs, but especially the experiences from the usage of the bats by Omron Pioniers, has led to the decision to come to an agreement with YaYa Bats for both the main-squad (Meerlease Pioniers) as well as its farm-team (Omron Pioniers), starting this season.
,,Meerlease Pioniers has the utmost confidence in YaYa as a provider and to work together as a partner'', the announcement reads.
The bats from YaYa are made from the original European Beech Wood, which a the most durable wood available.
On its website, YaYa writes that the University of Wood Technology in Zvolen (Slovakia) tested the selected wood in YaYa's beech wood bats against some American Wood Council standards.
According to these tests, YaYa's beech outperforms maple, ash and birch on rupture, elasticity and density.
(March 11)
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