re: How did you baws wear your mitts in your baseball years

This thread made me learn something why most Major Leaguers wear the glove with the palm out.







Always wondered about that...you would see it on TV and their hand would barely be in the glove.

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According to Justin Stone of elitebaseball.tv, there are three reasons advanced baseball players wear their gloves this way:

Easier hinge action with the glove

Glove as an extension of your fingers

Creates an air pocket so you're not stung by the ball

In order to regain control of the glove fingers, players:

Put both their pinky finger and ring finger into the pinky slot of the glove.

Put their middle finger into the ring finger slot of the glove.

Put their index finger in the middle finger slot of the glove.

This means the index finger slot is empty (which was often empty anyway, as most players who put their entire hand in their glove would often leave their index finger out of the glove).

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It’s legitimately night and day.

Once you put 2 fingers in the pinky slot, your world changes.

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Claw/2 in pinky

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agree, there is a reason all the bg leaguers prefer 2 in the pinky method

Index out when I played infield when I moved to center my coach taught me the 2 in the pink and it was a revelation, the glove turned into a huge basket.

While we are at this for the outfielders did you crow hop or pro step?

I did the old school crow hop. Pro step is trending these days

I was a big crow hop guy growing up. When I got older and started playing a lot of travel softball a grizzled vet showed me how much time I was wasting. I had a much stronger arm, but he could get it in faster just with the quicker release.

2 in the pink. When I was introduced to this in high school, I felt way more comfortable and never went back I felt like it gave me a much better and larger pocket and I had better control of the pinky end of the glove, which kept a lot of balls from bouncing out. I'm not sure when this method became popular though. That was about 10 years ago for me, and now the majority of jr high - high school kids I see and/or coach around here all use it as well.

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It keeps the glove in a better shape and feels better when you’re catching or fielding a ball. Creates more of a rounded pocket.

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Shoot. Why am I just learning this? I could still be playing if only Coach J had told me this (and taught me to improve my BA by about .150).

I don’t get the index out fascination. I always went index in traditional while playing infield. Outfield was 2 in the pink

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