How many ways are there to make a professional-quality wood bat? Apparently, a lot.

The breakthrough success of Sam Bats in the early 2000s, and more recently the Marucci Bat Company — which now claims about a third of the professional market share — seems to have scrambled the traditional view that only the brand names like Louisville, Rawlings and Mizuno could command the big-league clubhouse.

Most of the upstarts, like Tucci, have only a handful of employees and scrape to get by. But to receive M.L.B. approval, companies must show that at least one player is interested in using its bats, which, in an age when hitters are looking for more options, may not be that difficult to do. Tucci said it was not uncommon for players to keep three brands of bats in their rotation, each with its own design and specifications. The companies’ goal is to be one of the three.

“You know they’re going to go to other stuff,” Tucci said. “They go through slumps, and pick up another product and maybe get out of a slump. But it works in our favor, too. You ride with the cycles.”

In April, after Troy Tulowitzki and Pablo Sandoval joined his player advisory board, Tucci expanded into a work space of more than 10,000 square feet. On a recent tour, machines hummed and industrial fans whirred, channeling a smoky aroma of mulch. An employee quietly applied stickers to a set of bats that had been freshly stained.

It was not, by any means, the Louisville Slugger plant, which produces about 1.8 million bats annually, but Tucci’s output is up to 140 maple and ash bats per day, which equated to about $630,000 in sales last year. He has begun to ponder some interesting concerns: What does one do with 55-gallon bags of sawdust?