My son loves his. It is a hot bat but does take around 150 hits or so before it really wakes up. The cons we have is the outside layer cracks rather quickly. Easton told me that it will not hurt the strength of the bat, but our umpires check bats before every game. They will not let us use them with these cracks! We are on our 3rd bat this year and allstars has just started. Easton has been very good to us tho and has replaced our bats with no questions!