CloseoutBats.com

What CloseoutBats.com does

CloseoutBats.com is a family-owned retailer of closeout, overstock, and blemished baseball and softball equipment, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Westwood, New Jersey. The company operates a hybrid direct-to-consumer model that combines an e-commerce storefront built on the Turbify platform with a physical showroom, supported by a sizeable in-house warehouse that ships to 48 US states. With 11-50 employees, the business is small but established, leveraging 26 years of category history.

The product catalog spans major bat and equipment brands including Easton, DeMarini, Rawlings, Louisville Slugger, Marucci, Victus, Wilson, Miken, and Mizuno, with individual price points ranging from roughly $5 accessories to $500+ premium bats. CloseoutBats.com differentiates through value-added services including a BLEM bat line with a 90-day warranty, a demo bat program, a glove break-in service, buyer guides, a community pin board, and a trade-in partnership with SidelineSwap that supports used-equipment resale.

The business model is fundamentally a discounted-resale arbitrage: the company purchases discontinued, overstocked, and cosmetically blemished inventory from manufacturers at meaningful discounts and resells it to individual athletes, parents, and youth teams below typical retail. The company is bootstrapped, with no disclosed outside funding, and competes on price, selection, and ancillary services rather than on technology or brand exclusivity.

Name

CloseoutBats.com

Legal name

CloseoutBats.com

Website

https://closeoutbats.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CloseoutBats.com is a family-owned, bootstrapped retailer of discounted baseball and softball equipment founded in 1999 in Westwood, NJ, serving individual athletes, parents, and youth teams across 48 US states via e-commerce and a physical showroom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sporting Goods Retail

NAICS

Sporting Goods Retailers (45911)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYCRAMAEAA

Baseball & Softball Equipment Retail

Consumer Products & Retail/Sporting Goods & Outdoor Retail/Team Sports Equipment Retail

SECONDARYCRAEAFAO

Closeout Toys, Sporting Goods & Outdoor Retail

Consumer Products & Retail/Discount, Club & Value Retail/Closeout, Liquidation & Overstock Retail

SECONDARYCRAFADAJ

Sporting Goods & Outdoor Inventory-led Online Retailers

Consumer Products & Retail/E-commerce & Marketplaces/Online Retailers (Inventory-led)

Keywords

• Closeout sporting goods
• Baseball equipment retail
• Softball bats sale
• Discount sports equipment
• Baseball gloves sale

Headquarters

HQ city

Westwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. E-commerce Retail Sales: CloseoutBats generates revenue through direct online sales of baseball and softball equipment, including bats, gloves, helmets, protective gear, training equipment, and accessories. The company operates on a closeout/discount model, offering products at reduced prices from original retail. Revenue is generated through individual transaction sales with free shipping on orders over $99.
2. Physical Retail Sales: The company operates a physical showroom/retail location in Westwood, NJ where customers can purchase products directly, try demo bats, and receive personalized assistance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CloseoutBats.com is a family-owned retailer that sells closeout and discounted baseball and softball equipment — primarily bats, gloves, helmets, catcher's gear, protective equipment, training gear, and accessories — from major brands such as Easton, DeMarini, Rawlings, Louisville Slugger, Marucci, Victus, Wilson, Miken, and Mizuno. The company stocks inventory in its own warehouse and sells directly to consumers through its e-commerce site and a physical showroom in Westwood, NJ.

Product overview

CloseoutBats.com is a family-owned e-commerce and retail retailer specializing in closeout and discounted baseball and softball equipment. The company operates from a warehouse in Westwood, NJ and stocks what they sell, offering products across multiple categories including bats (baseball, fastpitch, slowpitch, and wood), gloves (baseball and softball), batting helmets, catcher's equipment, protective gear, training equipment, and accessories. The core product line centers on bats from major brands like Easton, DeMarini, Rawlings, Louisville Slugger, Marucci, Victus, and Miken, complemented by Wilson gloves, All-Star catcher's gear, EvoShield protective equipment, and RIP-IT fielding masks. Additional services include a SidelineSwap-powered bat trade-in program, demo bat testing, cosmetic blemish (BLEM) bats, and glove break-in services. The company targets baseball and softball players ranging from youth recreational to high school/college competitive levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Baseball Bats
• Softball Bats
• Wood Bats Wood baseball bats including Baum Pro Stock maple composite BBCOR wood bats and wood bats from various manufacturers for players and leagues that require wood.
• Baseball and Softball Gloves
• Batting Helmets
• Catcher's Equipment
• Protective Gear
• Training Equipment
• Batting Gloves
• Baseballs and Softballs
• Bat and Gear Bags
• Baseball and Softball Clothing
• BLEM Bats
• Demo Bat Program
• Bat Trade-In Program
• Glove Break-In Service

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SidelineSwapcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCloseoutBats partners with SidelineSwap to power their Bat Trade-In Program. Customers can bring in or mail bats that meet current certification standards (BBCOR, USSSA, USA) to receive instant credit toward new purchases. SidelineSwap provides market data for quoted trade-in prices, ensuring customers get the best value for their used equipment.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Easton: Easton is a leading baseball/softball equipment manufacturer that also sells direct-to-consumer through its own website and outlet channels. It is both a key supplier to CloseoutBats and a competitor that increasingly captures margin and customer data through its own DTC operations.
• Rawlings: Rawlings is a premier baseball/softball manufacturer producing bats, gloves, helmets, and catcher's gear, with growing direct e-commerce sales. It supplies CloseoutBats and competes with it by capturing first-party closeout demand through its own channels.
• DeMarini: DeMarini is a high-end baseball/softball bat manufacturer whose products are core inventory for CloseoutBats. DeMarini sells directly online as well, making it both a critical supplier and an adjacent competitor in the closeout bat category.
• Academy Sports + Outdoors: Academy Sports + Outdoors is a multi-category sporting goods retailer with strong baseball/softball equipment assortments across price points. It competes with CloseoutBats for value-conscious parents and recreational players, particularly in the South and Midwest U.S.
• Dick's Sporting Goods: Dick's Sporting Goods is the largest U.S. sporting goods retailer, carrying baseball/softball bats, gloves, and equipment across all major brands. While it operates broadly rather than as a closeout specialist, it competes for the same parent and player customers via nationwide brick-and-mortar and e-commerce presence.

Direct peers

• JustBats.com: JustBats.com is the largest online-only baseball and softball bat retailer in the U.S., offering new and closeout bats across the same BBCOR, USA, USSSA, fastpitch, and slowpitch categories as CloseoutBats. It is the most direct head-to-head competitor, operating with similar discount-driven positioning but a larger pure-play e-commerce footprint.
• CheapBats.com: CheapBats is a discount online baseball/softball bat retailer that explicitly competes on closeout and clearance pricing. It targets the same price-sensitive individual players and parents as CloseoutBats, with overlapping brand coverage.
• Baseball Monkey: Baseball Monkey is an online sporting goods retailer specializing in baseball and softball equipment, including bats, gloves, helmets, and apparel from the same major brands as CloseoutBats. It competes directly for the same player, parent, and team-league customer segments via e-commerce.
• Better Baseball: Better Baseball is a multi-category online baseball equipment retailer offering bats, gloves, training aids, and apparel across premium brands. It serves the same individual player and team customer base as CloseoutBats with comparable product breadth.

Others

• SidelineSwap: SidelineSwap is the largest U.S. peer-to-peer marketplace for used sports equipment and is currently CloseoutBats' technology partner powering its bat trade-in program. It is comparable as an adjacent marketplace enabling used baseball/softball equipment resale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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