Batting gloves.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

What percentage of players wear them? Who are the best players who don't use them today? What do you think about players who do and don't use them?

Personally, I don't use them. But then again, I don't rack up 600+ AB's plus batting practice.

[wogdoggy]

you are kidding correct?

[Joltin' Joe]

The Japanes slugger Sadaharu Oh didn't wear gloves. He said that by hitting barehanded, he could feel the vibration from the bat directly and gave him a much better interpretaion of how he was hitting the ball.

[tyberesk]

I personally don't wear them in highschool and legion baseball because i think the aluminum bats have a good enough grip. But i do use them with a wooden bat

[Billybob622]

well i dont wear batting gloves for aluminum or wood. Its just the way i feel. I dont feel comfortable wearing gloves, dont know why. But my batting average is just as good as many others on my team.

[CanadianKid]

I use them becuase we have to use wood in our league.
I'd say best hitter who doesn't use them is Vlad Guerrero.

[Jose Reyes]

Is it a bad idea to sometimes use them, then other times not? Because I do that. Should I just stick to one or the other, or does it not really matter?

[Utility07]

I use them, but only when its cold outside. Living in the midwest, our early spring season games can be 40 degrees out.

[POHusKy9]

i always wear them
in bp, cold, hot, games, aluminum or wood
first off, i have hands that sweat a lot even when im not nervous
and second, since my hands sweat a lot, i get blisters very easily without gloves

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

you are kidding correct?

No... Why?

[hellborn]

I have always worn gloves...my hands turn to hamburger without them. I tried sticking with not using them and just trying to build up callouses with hundreds of swings, but I would get lots of blisters no matter what. Maybe I have a Beckett-type problem. I also tried pine tar, but I couldn't wash the stuff off and it smelled horrible.
I loved Neumann gloves and was even willing to pay $30+/pair for them 15-20years ago, but I haven't seen them in a long time. They had really soft leather and were impregnated with stickum. I haven't found anything that I like nearly as much to replace them. Now, my wife buys me bags full of clearance gloves at Building 19 (local overstock/closeout sale chain) for $2 each and I sift through them and use the ones I like best.

[wogdoggy]

No... Why?
What percentage of players wear them? Who are the best players who don't use them today? What do you think about players who do and don't use them?


what percentage?? lol..about 39.83% according to my latest stats
the best players that dont use them?..joey badabing from south caroilina gamecocks,,hes the best player to go gloveless
what do i think?
only wimps wear gloves.cmon.

[wogdoggy]

im sorry richmond hills..i didnt realize you were only 16.sorry, i apologize.:eek:

[EvanAparra]

im sorry richmond hills..i didnt realize you were only 16.sorry, i apologize.:eek:

Well looking at your post, i would guess that you were the 16-year-old.

His questions are valid, i dont think he was asking for the actual percentage, just an estimation.

About the thread, ive never used gloves, and wont until i have to use wood bats, which will probably never happen. Then again, i was a .260 hitter in high school, so you might not want to pay attention to me.

[wogdoggy]

his questions are valid? and your an adult? whats your percatage count? whos your best player that doesnt use gloves? lol

what do u think about players who dont use them? id love to hear your answer.

[EvanAparra]

his questions are valid? and your an adult? whats your percatage count? whos your best player that doesnt use gloves? lol

what do u think about players who dont use them? id love to hear your answer.

Did you not even read what i wrote? He WASNT asking for an EXACT percentage... My best player who doesnt use gloves is Vlad. Im guessing its over 95 percent of MLB players that use gloves. There you go. Answers. Not all that hard. Cmon, adult, was that all that hard?? :laugh :laugh :laugh

[wogdoggy]

what a great answer to a very complex question...and i thought it was 39.83% ..your research is impeccable!now i can sleep.

oh yeah what do you think about players that dont wear them? are they tougher than you AVERAGE bear yogi?

[EvanAparra]

what a great answer to a very complex question...and i thought it was 39.83% ..your research is impeccable!now i can sleep.

oh yeah what do you think about players that dont wear them? are they tougher than you AVERAGE bear yogi?

I hope you know how dumb you look right now, the 14-year-olds in this forum give us more insight than you do. :laugh

[hellborn]

what a great answer to a very complex question...and i thought it was 39.83% ..your research is impeccable!now i can sleep.

oh yeah what do you think about players that dont wear them? are they tougher than you AVERAGE bear yogi?

I have a new topic!
Which BBF poster is the biggest PITA?
What percentage of his posts are painfully strained attempts to put somebody with a valid question or comment down?
How many users believe that he's even a fraction as tough in person as he acts online?

[hellborn]

What percentage of players wear them? Who are the best players who don't use them today? What do you think about players who do and don't use them?

Personally, I don't use them. But then again, I don't rack up 600+ AB's plus batting practice.

I was actually hoping for some more input about the usage of batting gloves in MLB...this is something that I don't tend to notice too much. I do notice Nomah's and Papi's routines with their gloves, though. Nomah's because he seems crazy, Papi's because the "let's get it done" clap is so cool.

I thought that these were perfectly valid questions, RHP, don't understand the silly uproar.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

What's wrong with asking these questions? I thought that it was a low % of players that used gloves, but maybe my thinking was wrong. Some people might say that the vibrations bother them, or they get blisters, or they don't like them because they need to feel the bat. As for the best player, I didn't really know who goes barehanded. Normally that's the kind of thing that you only notice on your home-town players (like Gregg Zaun in Toronto).

I obviously didn't want an exact percentage. What did you think? I wanted you to go through and divide the # of player who do by the # of players who don't? Just relax man! It's just a question... As we've all seen, sometimes the seemingly most obvious questoins have answers that no one agrees on. That's what this forum is all about.

[EdmondsFan#1]

I hope you know how dumb you look right now, the 14-year-olds in this forum give us more insight than you do. :laugh

Is that a insult to me... :mad:

Why was this topic created anyway? Batting gloves do not matter, bottom line is you are comfortable with them or you are not. I don't use them, but personally, if I was a major leaguer i would because i would get them for free ;) .

[EvanAparra]

Is that a insult to me... :mad:

Why was this topic created anyway? Batting gloves do not matter, bottom line is you are comfortable with them or you are not. I don't use them, but personally, if I was a major leaguer i would because i would get them for free ;) .

I said that because he pretty much said it was ok for 14 year olds to say something stupid because they were 14, and i said 14 year olds are mroe insightful than he is.. i dont see the insult.

[EdmondsFan#1]

I said that because he pretty much said it was ok for 14 year olds to say something stupid because they were 14, and i said 14 year olds are mroe insightful than he is.. i dont see the insult.

Oh, i thought you were saying the 14 year olds on this forum were dumb and never gave any good information, but i've been told that before so it doesn't matter.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

Why was this topic created anyway? Batting gloves do not matter, bottom line is you are comfortable with them or you are not. I don't use them, but personally, if I was a major leaguer i would because i would get them for free ;) .

Why was any topic created on this board. To explain personal preferances. To discuss. To debate. To be shot down by people who have no valuable insight to add to the discussion. Personally (and I think others will agree with me), I think it's very strange that batting gloves are ever so popular in MLB, however a select few continue to go hands-bare. And the select few is not some second rate bench players either. Kendall and Guererro as examples...

[EdmondsFan#1]

Why was any topic created on this board. To explain personal preferances. To discuss. To debate. To be shot down by people who have no valuable insight to add to the discussion. Personally (and I think others will agree with me), I think it's very strange that batting gloves are ever so popular in MLB, however a select few continue to go hands-bare. And the select few is not some second rate bench players either. Kendall and Guererro as examples...

To keep from getting blisters and splinters which could effect your batting.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

That came out wrong. I meant to say that it's strange that although gloves are so rampant in the game (I'm not saying this is a bad thing. It's personal preference), many good players choose not to use them.

There. Clearer?

[EdmondsFan#1]

That came out wrong. I meant to say that it's strange that although gloves are so rampant in the game (I'm not saying this is a bad thing. It's personal preference), many good players choose not to use them.

There. Clearer?

Because some good players might think they are for pussies.

That's what my great grandpa always told my father...

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

I'm sure that people don't use them to be tough. They use them to get the feel for the bat better etc... I'm sure that if their hands hurt all the time they would just use gloves instead of suffer through the pain.

[CanadianKid]

Because some good players might think they are for pussies.

That's what my great grandpa always told my father...

I doubt any of them are trying to be tough. They probably don't wear gloves because they like the feel of the bat or because they never used gloves when they were playing as kids.

[hellborn]

Because some good players might think they are for pussies.

That's what my great grandpa always told my father...

Fielding gloves were once reputed to be only for the use of effeminate pantywaists, but the game got past that, too. Anybody campaigning for a return to barehanded fielding?
It was difficult for me to bat well with huge strips of skin torn off my hands. I could not figure out how to take a reasonable amount of BP with bare hands and not have this happen, so I started using gloves. I suppose I could have just used them for BP and not in games, but I liked the improved grip. Some of my teammates used immense amounts of spray stickum for grip, but I found that the bat tended to stick to my hands while I was running down the 1B line when I used that stuff.
Is Vlad the only top hitter who doesn't use gloves? I can't picture them on Manny, but I just don't tend to notice them in general on ML players.

[SluggerCF91]

I used batting gloves all the time, then I decided to try to start hitting without batting gloves, but because my hands are always wet, my skin becomes soft, which makes me get blisters easier even though I have a lot of calluses on both hands. Now I use batting gloves all the time. I hit better with batting gloves then I do without batting gloves. Bottom line: If you prefer to use batting gloves, use batting gloves. If you prefer not to use batting gloves, don't use batting gloves. Dont go by what other people do, you have to do what you feel comfortable with.

[wogdoggy]

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huh what who what.

[overhandgas53]

I use them, I dont know why everyone hates them though. I put gloves on both of my hands so i have a great grip. I think the best player without batting gloves is Vladimir Guerrero and the best player with gloves is Ichiro.

[hellborn]

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huh what who what.

Shoot! Who woke him up?!?!?

[virg]

Maybe they compensate for the skinny bathandles?

[hellborn]

Maybe they compensate for the skinny bathandles?
I do have to admit that my ultra-thin plastic SP bat handle feels pretty weird without gloves...can't say that I've used a wooden BB bat with a handle thin enough to give me that feeling.

[wogdoggy]

Shoot! Who woke him up?!?!?


schools is starting turn off mom's computer and get to class

[hellborn]

schools is starting turn off mom's computer and get to class
I'm flattered...graduated Niles West HS in '84, Wash U BSEE in '87. Taken a few MSEE classes since then, but never in a classroom.
Mom died back in '84, so her computer is not even useful for web browsing now. Was probably actually a Selectric...
I must still have the spark of youth as a balding middle-aged man! That's why the babes are still crazy for me after all these years...

[wogdoggy]

the babes always liked those guys from niles west.lol..my old school is now called mother guerin..lol..go ahead fire away.:hp

[hellborn]

the babes always liked those guys from niles west.lol..my old school is now called mother guerin..lol..go ahead fire away.:hp
River Grove, huh? Practically neighbors to us Skokie folks...
Those Catholic schools always had the best school sports fields in the Chicago area. Lucky!
The field at my grade school where I used to go hit balls around is now offices and a coupla stinkin soccer fields...they tore out the backstops and cut down a beautiful huge maple that graced the field. Depresses the crud out of me.

[wogdoggy]

River Grove, huh? Practically neighbors to us Skokie folks...
Those Catholic schools always had the best school sports fields in the Chicago area. Lucky!
The field at my grade school where I used to go hit balls around is now offices and a coupla stinkin soccer fields...they tore out the backstops and cut down a beautiful huge maple that graced the field. Depresses the crud out of me.


graduated holy cross in 1976.played varsity basketball in my soph year..great rivalries agaist notre dam and st pattys..2000 plus boys in each school..now less than 200 at mother guerin ..although marist and st pattys are still strong schools

[hellborn]

graduated holy cross in 1976.played varsity basketball in my soph year..great rivalries agaist notre dam and st pattys..2000 plus boys in each school..now less than 200 at mother guerin ..although marist and st pattys are still strong schools
I vaguely remember that there was some kind of bad blood between Niles West and Notre Dame, but don't remember why...don't think that we competed in sports. I happened to hook up with some girls from Regina and hung with them through HS...one of them used to carry the Satanic Bible around for shock effect. Don't think she brought it to school...

[Hawaii]

One other advantage is protection--not much, but a little. Get beaned on the hand/fingers and wearing a glove is better than not wearing a glove. Not to hi-jack the thread, but a little tidbit gleaned from recent experience--if you get beaned on the hand, you may hear the ump yell "that's a foul ball/strike, the hands are part of the bat." Wrong--that's only true if you are swinging. If you are taking the pitch and it veers in and gets you on the hands, it's a bean, you are entitled to go to first. Rule 8-something.

[Utility07]

I'm flattered...graduated Niles West HS in '84, Wash U BSEE in '87. Taken a few MSEE classes since then, but never in a classroom.
Mom died back in '84, so her computer is not even useful for web browsing now. Was probably actually a Selectric...
I must still have the spark of youth as a balding middle-aged man! That's why the babes are still crazy for me after all these years...

NILES WEST SUX

Niles north class of 04!

[hellborn]

NILES WEST SUX

Niles north class of 04!
Um, I think that you meant that Niles EAST sux...
wait, if you're class of '04, you've never heard of Niles East.
It's the OCC campus over by Lincoln Jr. High now.
All I remember about North was that it had AC, it was very close to the mall, and a hot babe I knew went there...oh, and they used to have to send students from there to West to take AP classes cuz they weren't available at North!!
:clapping

[Utility07]

I have heard of it, because we have their trophies and crap in the hall.