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Broken bats is not a statistic kept by MLB nor by any team in MLB. There is no way to know this answer.
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Hundreds and thousands of bats
MLB player Adam LaRoche bats left.
It is a form of cheating. No ball or bat is to be tampered with during a game.
MLB player Bryan Holaday bats right.
Nine
MLB player Arquimedes Caminero bats right.
MLB player Jose Ramirez can bat right or left (i.e. he is a switch hitter).
MLB will put out a contract for bid. This contract may be for hats, bats, TV rights, etc. Companies that would like to do business with MLB bid on the contract. MLB selects the bid that will be the best for them (almost always the highest bid) and awards that company the rights, called licensing agreements, to produce the hats or bats with the MLB logo or team logo. Click on the 'MLB Suppliers' link on this page to see who MLB awarded licensing agreements to in 2005.