Hitting with the 2025 EASTON HYPE FIRE | USSSA Baseball Bat Review

The Hype Fire absolutely took over the travel ball world in 2023/2024. Today we're gonna see if there's anything new about the 2025 version, and we'll see how it stacks up in our USSSA bat rankings.

[KiaWilson-nx]

5:09 I like how he just said 508 so casually 😂

[thej]

So easton is still making crazy hot bats in 2024. You got a casual 510' there. Incredible.

[spclintd]

My son is 11yrs old. His exit velocity is in the 70’s we can’t break the Hype for nothing lol. Uses it off the machines weekly, BP, and still super hot and no cracks. Warranty is almost up trying to crack it lol!

[edward]

My sons has lasted the entire season and he's been killing balls all summer. At the end of the day, this is Will hitting NUKES as a grown man, not the kids that the bat is intended for! Get the Hype...

[GDavis]

Glad to see you decided to do more tank top testing

[Rude_dude]

You know it’s a good day when will posts

[Rotten_on_xbox]

Been waiting on this forever!!!! Great day when will posts!!!

[MrBlackFabio]

I LOVE THIS BAT!! I even like the design. Time for a 2025 Easton Hype Fire vs. 2025 Rawlings ICON battle with special guest Eric Sim.

I suggest doing that ballpark that has the apartment complex behind left field. I don’t know where that ballpark is, but it was on the episode Will did on wood bats and the various prices on them.

[hkmoney]

Casually rocking the Roman Noodle sleeves.

[OHog-zzfc]

I used this my whole 14u season because it was my last year swinging USSSA. I mainly used it in games but I did use it in bp a few times just for fun. I am by no means the top level 14 year old but it was routinely hitting 70-75 mph pitching for 4 months and it lasted the whole year. It does have 2 seams on it but it is still usable after a full year of multiple 14 year olds swinging it.

[DefendTheStar]

Design wise i like the look of the Bonesaber.

It's wild though that will gets exit velos with this hot bat that are on par w what Judge and Stanton produce w maple. Those two must've been made in a lab.

[mrbug]

Interesting conclusion. Hype fire was the #1 bat for my son’s USSSA 12u majors team and we didn’t see a single one broken. Fall tryouts there have been 3 kids with the Tank and already 1 of those has cracked.

[nja]

I can't get enough of his "Eastbound and Down" hair. Ode to K.P. Solid flow!!

[ivanjohnson]

Definitely like the Blue bat the best. These bats don't break when kids use them, we had multiple on our team the entire season and not one broke. Used all season, games, practice and in the colder weather. My son preferred swinging the end loaded Zoa/Zen and hit the ball harder than anyone using the Hype.

[External_]

my drop 8 has had a whole team seing it for a whole season and it is still going strong

[fara]

12-13 Kids should start buying wooden bats in a turn model they can barrel up. Get some white athletic tape and cover the sweet spot, and focus on hitting every ball within that area. As you get stronger you can go more end loaded until you can increase to a heavier turn model. The sooner you can start barreling baseballs with wood, the better your hands will be as you get older. Strength will come with age, so focus on hitting everything hard and up the middle with lumber

[chriszackery]

Will although I agree with everything you say as far as the rankings and everything else you say about these bats I would like to say this. I’d love for you to make a genre of videos that are based on hitting in the cold 🥶 specifically to see how all these bats perform. The reason I say this and I understand composites don’t like the cold but my son broke 2 Icons this season his season is primarily played in really cold temps so I chalked it up to that but he loved it. I’d love to see all of them go through the gauntlet of cold weather.

[JustinBurgan-qwdn]

The 27" -10 Hype Fire our 8 yo has lasted a fall and spring season. That's with one kid using it for every BP session and sometimes multiple kids using it. That and multiple kids used it for games every game.

I've seen a 28" -10 still in service with the kid using it for all BP and games.

That's about what I expected though.

[Unknown-evxq]

Will bringin out the cannons for this vid

[dsoulliere]

hey will, you should make a video where you swing the cheapest wood bats you can find whether thats amazon or in person and test them to see which cheap wood bat is the best, because some of the recent videos with wood bats, you figured out that some cheap ones are actually really good.