No, Bamboo bats have not yet been approved by Major League Baseball. The approved bat types are Ash, Maple, Birch, and Hickory. Some consider Bamboo Bats a composite bat based on the way they are made.
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Completely wrong answer below. Ash and maple are only two wood species used for wood bats at mlb level. Birch has very small following. Bamboo is not allowed to be used in pro ball because MLB rules specifically require wood bats to be one solid piece of wood...bamboo is hollow. Bamboo because bamboo is stronger.That is also what the people in the World series use.
None....Bamboo is not allowed to be used in pro ball because MLB rules specifically require wood bats to be one solid piece of wood...bamboo is hollow. Josh Gibson once used a bamboo bat and hit a 700-foot homerun. After that they never used bamboo for bats ever again.
MLB player Adam LaRoche bats left.
MLB player Bryan Holaday bats right.
From http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/bats/lesser-bamboo-bat.htm : "The Bamboo Bat...will forage at night for flying insects, particularly termite swarms."
The scientific name for Philippine Bamboo bats is Tylonycteris robustula.
MLB player Arquimedes Caminero bats right.
MLB player Jose Ramirez can bat right or left (i.e. he is a switch hitter).
Broken bats is not a statistic kept by MLB nor by any team in MLB. There is no way to know this answer.
MLB player Christian Yelich bats left.
MLB player Ken Giles bats right.
MLB player Dexter Fowler can bat right or left (i.e. he is a switch hitter).