Glove on throwing hand

Here in Northern Illinois, we practice and play in ridiculously cold weather in the Spring and even sometimes in the fall.

I never let my players wear a batting glove on their throwing hand.

Stick you hand in your pants between pitches...you'll be fine. Plus, you can adjust your cup at the same time...kill two birds with one stone.

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"Stick you hand in your pants between pitches...you'll be fine."

That's good advice papi...and if things don't work out baseball wise, danno can easily walk on at the TSA!



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When it gets "cold" here in FL (below 50 ) some of our players have those little hand warmers that you can buy at Sports Authority. They just keep one in a pocket and get it out between pitches/innings.

Please no one take offense to this because I truly don't mean anything by this but some of you people are cracking me up. 50 degress or lower and you're cold is a hoot. I spent many years in Kentucky with very cold temps and winds. We would have practice in parking lots in 30 degree temp with wind chill making it much lower. Because of this I can't even imagine practicing in northern Illinois and how cold it can get.

My first spring in NC it was about 55 degrees and I wore short sleeve shirt and was sweating. It just goes to show what you get used to.

So true.
I'm loving the weather today - 80 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.

Last week the low dropped to 38 (a record!) and I thought my hands were going to fall off during my morning run.

We do get spoiled here in the sunshine state!

Yep...we keep a large supply of these around...toss one in the back pocket of the throwing side and they can hold on to it between the action.

Thanks everyone for the ideas! coach2709, no offense taken! I'm impressed with you guys up north. I take pride in many things, but not at all shamed of my fear of frost

Back in 2005, when I was an assistant with Shenandoah University I used tight fitting batting gloves to throw BP as I had to deal with mud and snow at various times using the yellow dimple balls.

I always said that Ray Charles could hit my BP because I throw strikes!

I hate cold weather and to me anything below 65 is cold. I have never seen a day too hot for me. So the spring season is always a challenge for me. So your trying to keep players focused on doing what they need to do in practice and if you show your cold they will get even colder. So it is not uncommon for me to show up at practice in a T shirt and shorts when its very cold.

One day it was very cold and I didn't like the teams approach to practice. Guys were acting like they were freezing and we were not getting much accomplished. So I ripped off my shirt and proceeded to tell all of them it was not cold. Cold is in your mind. I coached the rest of the practice with no shirt on and shorts and it was around 35 degrees and windy. The players focus was much better. And it convinced them that I was indeed crazy.

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I ripped off my shirt...

Why am I not sorry I missed that?!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family, K!

I would never let my players use a glove on their throwing hand either.

I can see how it's being brought up now though because we see quarterbacks in the NFL using them on their throwing hands.

Stu