Looking for recommendations for cold-weather gear, specifically base layers for top and bottom. Any brands or materials that work better than others? My son pitches and plays third base so don’t want anything that is too restrictive. Thanks.
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How cold? In FL below 55 is cold. Son can get away with a loose long sleeve baseball shirt. https://www.dickssportinggoods...ops&pageNumber=0
Below 45 and he’d probably go with UA cold gear. Fortunately he hasn’t had to find out
Cant beat ua cold gear
It depends on your kid's tolerance. My older needs UA cold gear plus another layer when it drops to the 40s, my younger I swear the hospital must have switched with an Innuit kid will work out in shorts or sweat pants on really cold day (below freezing).
North of Atlanta in the low 40s today. Season starts in two weeks and his team is having an intra-squad scrimmage before final cuts on Monday.
How windy will it be? My son doesn’t mind temps in the 40s if it’s not windy.
And that Florida 50 is indeed cold. Same here in Texas. It can get damn chilly. The buckeye in me cringes when I have to put on a jacket, but 50 in FL or TX is colder than 40 up in Ohio.
Definitely UA Cold Gear with or without mock neck. Tshirt under or over, depending on the wind for a core or wind layer. Moving blankets in the dugout.
Compression leggings under baseball pants for the cold/damp/wind. Or if push comes to shove, you can wear panty hose. (Not kidding) We used to wear those in the cold in Ohio playing soccer in the "professional" cold or snow. Work great as a base layer, and with control top, slimming too. LOL.
Hot Hands for the back pocket for throwing hand or between catchers glove and baseball/batting glove.
Neck Gators are good and can go over ears and under hat easily too. Covid friendly.
Both kids swore by UA cold gear for under 50 degrees.
@Eokerholm posted:And that Florida 50 is indeed cold. Same here in Texas. It can get damn chilly. The buckeye in me cringes when I have to put on a jacket, but 50 in FL or TX is colder than 40 up in Ohio.
Definitely UA Cold Gear with or without mock neck. Tshirt under or over, depending on the wind for a core or wind layer. Moving blankets in the dugout.
Compression leggings under baseball pants for the cold/damp/wind. Or if push comes to shove, you can wear panty hose. (Not kidding) We used to wear those in the cold in Ohio playing soccer in the "professional" cold or snow. Work great as a base layer, and with control top, slimming too. LOL.
Hot Hands for the back pocket for throwing hand or between catchers glove and baseball/batting glove.
Neck Gators are good and can go over ears and under hat easily too. Covid friendly.
You haven't lived until you watch a game with the temperature at game time is 38 F with light snow flurries and the temp continues to drop throughout the day. This was at Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, VA in early February 2013.
JuCo home opener (Foxson freshman year) temperature was at 38 F at the beginning of the 1st game and it was close to freezing by the end of the 2nd game. Foxson had something similar to the Neckgators but it included a head covering as well as the mouth/nose covering. Pretty sure he had UA undergarments as well.
Got you beat....31 and sleeting in Texas. (Felt like 25) I have no idea how my son was pitching and could feel the ball in his hands. It was miserable.
All of those are normal April baseball days in New England.
UA base layer 4.0 is great for parents. 2.0 is great for players if you need more than just the cold gear
@Stuckinnewengland posted:All of those are normal April baseball days in New England.
That's a fact. Been there, done that.
Exactly why I kept moving SOUTH!! Born in Boston, moved to Michigan, then Ohio, college in Columbus (-60-65 F windchill SUCKED!), then St Louis for Grad school, then Durham, NC for work, then Austin. I certainly don't miss the seasons or snow.
