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Reply to "Mitt Lifespan"

Like a lot of things in baseball, some of this might be personal preference, but my son usually gets 1-2 years out of a glove.  (Shin guards are another story!)

Of course, he has a gamer, a gamer in training and a back up glove.  However, like a lot of players, he tends to use his gamer most of the time because of confidence in the glove.

He does take very good care of his gloves.  He always "hand carries" them separately from his catcher's bag etc.  Although this does get harder to do on college road trips...  (They have never seen the inside of his bag.)

Like most college catchers, he is catching a lot of bullpens all Fall, pens & games in Spring, as well as a pretty intense summer ball schedule.  (He also catches several MLB pitchers in off season.)  Obviously, glove quality matters, but I might add that "pocket awareness" has something to do with glove longevity.  He has never complained about lack of padding, but has needed to replace the pocket strings 2-3 times a season, which seems to be the biggest problem with increased velo from pitchers.

He switched to Wilson A2k glove the last 3 years at suggestion by MLB catcher friend and he loves it.

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