Villiers Abreu’s ‘Theory’ for the check-swing broken club

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Spring training started for MLB. The The Red Sox have already played in multiple spring training contests. In Tuesday’s game, Willier Abreu took a swing and his bat broke.

Now it’s Abreu offering an explanation as to why his bat brokeno contact with the ball, per Scott Chiusano and Ian Browne of MLB.com.

“I don’t know. It was kind of weird. It’s the first time it’s happened to me. I don’t think it’s happened too many (other) times, so it was just weird,” Abreu said. “Earlier in the at-bat, when I hit a ground ball to shortstop, I felt something weird on the bat. I felt something with the contact. It wasn’t the right way. And in the next at-bat, I just broke it.”

This begs the question: If the at-bat felt weird, why didn’t Abreu just change the pieces of wood before his next at-bat?

“I tested it,” he said. “I tried to see if it was broken, but I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t feel anything wrong with the bat. But in my mind, the sound was strange with the bat before, but I didn’t expect the bat to break like that.”

Broken bats are not uncommon in baseball, whether they get stuck in the field, balls fly off the end of the barrel, or the occasional frustrated hitter breaks them himself. However, the bat rarely breaks without making contact with anything. Still, the footage of the phantom bat breaking goes viral.

“Yeah, I mean, that video went viral. So I got a lot of messages,” Abreu said.

The next time Abreu breaks the bat, he sure hopes it’s a hit and not a check-swing. That momentum could come in World Baseball Classic, as Abreu plays for the Venezuelan team.

The WBC begins on March 5 and the Red Sox open the season on March 26 against the Cincinnati Reds.





2026-02-25 19:54:00

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