A Baseball bat is a lever. It is usually identified as a third class lever but it can be the first class as long as it is attached to an arm.
It is a lever.
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A Baseball glove is not a machine as most people understand the term. But it can be called a machine if you go strictly by one definition of a machine. It is a simple machine that alters the magnitude of an applied force. As in a baseball traveling at 100 mph, being caught by the glove and stopping it's forward motion.
The simple machine that is represented by a cricket bat is called a lever. The lever is used to redirect energy in a different direction.