A vintage McGwire bat earns its encore with Baseball Bat Bros
An eBay find joins modern plastic bats in a distance test that has passed 1.3 million views.
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The ULTIMATE WIFFLEBALL BAT SHOWDOWN
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- 0:20Will introduces the vintage Mark McGwire Vortex bought on eBay and saves it for the finale.
- 1:50An Easton Hype Fire baseball bat provides a baseline, denting the balls during testing.
- 2:20The original yellow bat and Franklin Jumbo begin the plastic-bat distance tests.
- 7:01The Blitzball and Blitzball Torpedo take their turns with Cam marking distances.
- 13:00The vintage McGwire bat gets its finale test; the final verdict comes at 16:04.
The expensive baseball bat dents the balls and barely sends them anywhere. That's the opening indignity in The Baseball Bat Bros' latest wiffleball test, where equipment built for a different game quickly finds its limits.
Will and JT bring a lineup of plastic bats onto a baseball field, with John pitching and Cam marking distances. Waiting for the finale is a 1990s Mark McGwire Vortex bought on eBay. It proves more than a nostalgia purchase: the vintage bat sends a ball 168 feet, earning Will's declaration that it is their all-time wiffleball winner.
"The ULTIMATE WIFFLEBALL BAT SHOWDOWN" is the most watched of the week's four uploads. The comments have become a small neighborhood reunion, with viewers remembering yellow bats used as lightsabers, the distinctive sound of the McGwire model and birthday afternoons spent hitting with friends. Others pick out the rather serious touch of applying pine tar to a plastic bat.
The Nerf Vortex supplies the equipment mishap, snapping apart on contact. It also gets more room in the week's lineup through "Hitting with the NERF WiffleBall Bat..." and "We Gave the NERF Bat a Second Chance…". Meanwhile, "Can We EXPLODE a Pumpkin with a Baseball? 🎃" has passed half a million views and is currently drawing the most daily views of the three active uploads.
Subscribers stayed level over the week, but viewing is busy: the channel's current daily views are more than double its usual level. Among nearby American sports channels, Quarterback Plug had a particularly large week, while Aj Greene was close to its normal daily rhythm. For The Baseball Bat Bros, the plastic-bat experiment has supplied both a full distance test and a second-chance Nerf outing.
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What viewers say
Sooo many "light saber" fights with The OG Yellow Bats as a kid!
@IvIidnightSee it on YouTubeOh the nostolgia with the McGwire Vortex bat. That really brings me back to my childhood. So many iconic sounds from these bats.
@EvectrolyteSee it on YouTubeI remember opening that Vortex bat for my birthday as a kid and instantly going outside and the whole neighborhood just hit nukes all day with it. That bat absolutely bangs!
@AlexCasebeer25See it on YouTube
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love the leg guard for the wiffle ball bats will
@PENA3See it on YouTube10:49 pine tarring a wiffleball bat got me giggling 😂
@nolanscholl5707See it on YouTubeDude it's so awesome that the MM Power bat actually lives up to those childhood memories. That Pang will always be iconic.
@TurgleYTSee it on YouTubeNow I want to see if Bat Bros can make the most juiced wiffle bat
@SherlockOhms27See it on YouTubeI remember making one of those McGuire bats with a classic skinny wiffle bat, a 2 liter soda bottle, and some duct tape. God that took me back.
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The videos drawing views on The Baseball Bat Bros right now
- Channel
- The Baseball Bat Bros
- Subscribers
- 1,280,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,728,118
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- October 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,294,751
- Views on its first day
- 311,094
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Which vintage bat is saved for the finale in the Bat Bros' distance test?
Will introduces the eBay-bought Mark McGwire Vortex early and holds it back for the finale.





