The Mayhem FP minus-10 is Worth’s first 100% composite fast pitch bat and it is made with a material unusual in composite bats – aramid. Aramid is the generic name for a super strong material most people know by the brand name Kevlar.
It is designed for high school and college players.
Worth’s ACT – Aramid Composite Technology – produces a bat barrel wall that measures 9.5% stronger and 19.5% tougher than traditional composite bat barrels. Strength has to do with the bat’s performance; toughness has to do with the bat’s durability.
As for performance, in Worth testing, most balls hit along the barrel of the Mayhem FP minus-10 had a batted ball exit speed of at least 96 mph, showing that the majority of hits register at the high end of the ASA 2004 performance standard.
It has a long barrel with a traditional taper and a thin handle. It has a rubberized plastic end cap and a new Pro Pebble composite grip.
It is available in 34”/24 oz, 33”/23 oz, 32”/22 oz and 31”/21 oz. It is orange with blue and white graphics.
We hit the 32”/22 oz model.
The girls were completely unfamiliar with the Mayhem when it arrived for testing, but they flocked to it right away because of the look: “I loved the graphics and the color,” wrote one reviewer; “It has a great look and feel,” described another.
The raves continued once the hitting began.
One tester, the power hitter for her 14U squad, hit a monster shot off the fence 250 feet away on one of the first pitches she saw, and has not put the Mayhem down in practice or in games ever since. Her coach says she is hitting the ball as hard as he’s ever seen her.
Other girls had similar tales. The feel was good, the balance was comfortable and the weight – a minus-10 ounce drop – made the bat available to smaller girls that can’t swing a top-of-the-line minus-9 or minus-8 ounce drop bat. And the performance was comparable to anything that has been tested for 2005.
The sound is a little different than the girls, the majority of whom normally swing Miken, were used too. But this was simply noted then forgotten.
There was no noticeable sting on balls hit off the inside of the plate. Not too many balls were hit off the end of the barrel, so there is no report of how that feels.
Worth touts its ACT formula as both spreading the sweet spot and increasing the bat’s durability. The barrel – 14 inches on the 34-inch model and 12 inches on the 32-inch model we hit – seems to be live except on the extreme ends. That means a good 10 inches of hot hitting surface on the 32-inch model which is more than double the size of the sweet spot on Worth’s popular EST models and is measurably more than Worth’s 2004 Wicked Insanity.
As for durability, after two months of hitting and literally 1,000 swings, the bat shows no real signs of wear, including to its Akzo Nobel automotive finish.
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