Hi All,
If there is a play at the plate do you keep your mask on or off?
Thanks,
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On...there is no reason to do otherwise. The visibility with the mask on is fine, so why not have the maximum protection for yourself?
Even with the mask on my son still took 4 stitches on the bridge of the nose after one colission last year. Could have been a lot worse without the mask. Believe it or not there are some out there who have the intent to injure.
Mask on. The only time I took it off was for a pop-fly that wasn't near the fence or backstop..
Leave it on! No question for plays at the plate.
I started teaching kids to leave it on even for popups a few years ago. With the hockey style mask, the vision is so good, it makes sense to leave it on. Started doing this when I noticed Brad Ausmus doing it a few years back.
I started teaching kids to leave it on even for popups a few years ago. With the hockey style mask, the vision is so good, it makes sense to leave it on. Started doing this when I noticed Brad Ausmus doing it a few years back.
Why would you take it off?
Only time our kids take off the mask is for pop-ups.
I'm a mask on proponent. The new masks are more like goalie masks with great line of vision. There's no need to take it off except popups.
I'm curious what benefit you think you're getting taking them off for popups? You talk about what great vision you have with them and you don't have that added thing to think about (throwing the mask away). Why do it (other than it takes teaching them to break old habits)?
Well, as coincidence would have it, my catcher went after a foul pop in no man's land in front of the 3rd base dugout a few hours ago and suffered a mild concussion when his face hit the leg of the 3rd baseman who was also going all out for the ball. I shudder to think how much worse it could have been had he not kept his mask on, even going after pop ups, as I have told him to do!
I've been trying to have my son keep his mask on for plays at the plate but it's hard for him when I tell him to keep it on but other Coaches/parents are telling him to take it off.I've even showed him MLB and College games where the players are keeping it on.I would like him to start young and get a habit of keeping it on,he says he can see perfectly fine with the helmet he has.
JMW37, hope your players is allright.
JMW37, hope your players is allright.
