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Host Casey Bass and Craig Brooks conclude the 2 part series on Baseball Gloves.
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Clubhouse Gas Casey: Today on Clubhouse Gas we conclude our 2-part series with Craig Brooks from Jonquil Sporting Goods. Today he pulls out a bunch of different gloves and goes through more of this. It’s going to be a fantastic show so stay tuned to Clubhouse Gas. Well you know you’ve got a couple of different types of gloves laid out here I would love it if you just showed us maybe the differences of them and talked about some of the differences in the quality and what their for and price wise. Craig: Okay, I pulled out. Casey: Here I’ll hold that one for you, so nothing happens to it, I’ll just go. Craig: I pulled out a few different gloves just a couple of these, most of these that I have pulled out are infield gloves. You want, you know as a player gets better he gets into high school or possibly like a more competitive travel ball 12, 13, 14 and then on college and pro. You would guess something similar to this, this is an 11 and a half inch A2000 made for infield preferably the shortest opposition that size would be preferred there. You see a lot of second baseman using this size and you see a few 3rd baseman using this size. Casey: Alright. Craig: Just one quick feature on this glove is where it’s all full grain, really nice leather that it has something on the back, this is called super skin and it’s just a very lightweight material and helps you handle the glove a little quicker. It makes the glove a little bit lighter. Casey: How is that for durability though? Craig: Very good, I actually use this item with this close. Casey: I’m also a client. Craig: Don’t make— Casey: I’m sorry, I’ve got one to right there. Craig: Another glove quickly is a pitcher’s model at a high level baseball when a pitcher doesn’t want anyone to be able to see what pitcher’s doing if I got the glove tight here throwing a fastball but they want to throw my change up the gloves wide, well what you ant if you had an open web glove like this you could possibly see all of those things. Casey: Right. Craig: So a pitcher would want something with a close web or at least a busy enough web to where you couldn’t see through there. Casey: Does it also help prevent fanning or is it just up to him as far as moving the glove when does is this one because that’s a pretty wide glove? Craig: It wouldn’t necessarily help prevent it but it is a wider glove, it’s made specifically for that so you can fan this Greg Maddux uses the similar gloves like this and he’s well known for spreading his gloves. I don’t think he even makes contact with his glove with a baseball glove. Casey: Right. Craig: But it basically jus a hiding mechanism. Casey: Alright. Craig: From there I guess we could move in to the glove you have in your hand, which is the most expensive glove every made in the history of baseball gloves to my knowledge and that’s the Rawlings Primo. This retail is I think anywhere you find it anywhere is at 399.99. Casey: That is the corvette of baseball gloves. Craig: That is the corvette of baseball gloves but that is about as nice as you can get its all Italian leather, all hand sown blah, blah, blah, blah. Casey: You got a $400 glove there how much more performance are you getting out of that $400 dollar glove than a $200 glove? Craig: You’re getting years of years is what you’re getting. This is not going to make me catch the ball any better than this $100 glove but you’re getting longevity, durability and you can keep the glove for a long, long time. Casey: You get what you paid for. Craig: Exactly. Casey: And that is true in baseball gloves. Craig: Definitely. Casey: If you have a higher price glove it’s a higher quality glove. Craig: More times are not I’m sure there’s some products out there that’s miss marked but yes we more of the times or not you definitely get what you pay for. Casey: Do they have any Reebok like pump up gloves, like the shoes? Craig: Actually I think at one time there was. Casey: I think I remember seeing one those. Craig: I have never had one myself. Casey: Well end with this, you say a lot of guys, high school, college and the pro’s have several different kinds of gloves in their bags. Even guys who don’t play different positions like a guy who might catch sometimes, at what point does a kid start think about a couple of different gloves. Is it necessary and if so what’s the reason about it? Craig: When your quality of baseball gets too— when it goes I mean there are probably some 11 and 12 year old travel ball kids that probably are playing the quality baseball that they need to gloves. If he’s playing 2nd base and center field, well 2nd base you want the smallest glove on the entire diamond. Casey: Right. Craig: The purpose of a second basement is to get the ball out of his glove, not so much fielding. Casey: Right. Craig: I mean if you’re playing second base you should be able to catch the baseball. Casey: Right. Craig: you just want quick hands. Where an outfielder wants something very long so when we comes in charging on that ground ball, he’s able to pick the ball up off his front foot but still beat half time to get him back on his feet underneath him to make that throw back to the infield. So it depends on the quality of baseball, I would say for the average player, if you’re doing infield and outfield you know if you’re playing first base and third base. You know those kids let’s say 13, 14 definitely into high school baseball you need to be more position specific with your glove. Casey: Alright well thank you so much, you got all the information that you need now to go out and make an informed decision buy a new glove then all you have to do is go to the archives where my man Craig will tell you how to break it in. Thanks for being with us today thanks we really appreciate it, we’ll see you right back here next time for another great edition of Clubhouse Gas.
