Louisville has finally responded to Easton and Demarini’s multi-piece bat designs with the Louisville Slugger TPX Triton, a unique 3 piece bat. What I find amazing about this bat is the size of the barrel. This is the largest barrel I’ve ever seen on a baseball bat. My initial thought is this thing looks like an oak tree!
The unique 3 piece design allows the barrel and the handle to be designed and built as individual units. They are then fused together via what is called the Bubble Transition Zone. Louisville claims this makes the bat function as a more advanced one piece bat (I’ll get to this claim in a second). The bat is made of 100% composite material and includes the standard Louisville stiff handle. The Adult -3 model retails for $399 and the Youth -12 at $249. Louisville has long promoted the benefits of the 1 piece design and stiff handle for baseball bats. The success of 2 piece bats from Easton and Demarini has finally forced them to manufacture a multi piece bat. Unfortunately, being stubborn, they won’t admit to the general public that their new multi piece bat is actually a multi piece bat! They claim it’s “really” a one piece bat that is fused together from 3 pieces. This is insane!!! Louisville’s entire marketing department should be fired immediately. Louisville has to either admit multi-piece bats have merit or stick to a true one piece design, we’re not fools. I’m skeptical to purchase a bat for $399 when the manufacturer is telling me little white lies. What’s next, saying they’ve developed a flex handle fused to act like a stiff handle? Having said all this about their marketing, or lack there of, I will say that I do think the Louisville TPX Triton is a quality bat. That huge barrel makes it very appealing and it seems to hit very well. But I can not recommend it now due to some doubts about the design and its durability. At the present time I recommend the Easton IMX (Stealth or Synergy IMX) or Demarini CF3 in this category. We’ll keep an eye on the Triton and report back in the near future.
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Purchased LS Triton 32/29 for my son. Bat has a ton of pop. Balanced weight. Huge sweet spot. On the down side , the grip is CHEAT. Had to replace after 8 BP sessions. Break in time is about 500 balls hit solid , but practice time is worth final results
I bought the bat a couple months ago and highly recommend it. it has Tons of pop, and the ball hits solid anywhere above the “transition zone” I agree with scott about the grip. when you buy this bat, buy a replacement grip to go with it.
Received this bat in exchange for my son having cracked the “transition zone” in his 2008 Triton, a bat he loved. The 2009 Triton has shown plenty of pop as well. He’s a big kid, but can afford to swing a shorter and lighter bat given the level of pop this bat has. We’re very pleased with its performance.
I purchased it and within 200 balls being pitched, and within 2 days, the bat broke. But its was literally FLYING the ball over the fence.
i have the 2008 triton and its like the ball goes flying off the bat… only bad thing about it is that the grip is comeing off of it.
500-550 balls to get the bat broken in