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'Pancake Gloves' like any other training tool can help as long as its used correctly. The benefit of using a pancake glove would help you use 'soft' hands. Soft hands (of course helps you from keeping stiff hands) are good for helping one from 'bobbling' the ball when it comes to you. Also it helps you transfer the ball from glove to destination quicker.
The glove for an infielder, is used to stop the ground ball not catch it.
Meaning get the ball in the throwing had as quickly as possible, to turn a DP or throw to any bag for an out.
If the infielder can stop the ball are skip it off the palm into the throwing hand will make him much quicker at turning the DP. It need's to be a practiced method.
That's what the pancake glove could be used for.
Also when SS throw's to 2nd for a DP, 2nd baseman can use the back side of glove( not the pocket ) to stop ball and throwing hand is right there to make transfer and throw to 1st for DP. EH
The pancake glove is a great tool for teaching soft hands and fielding the ball with two hands instead of one. Fielders don't want to field a ground ball in the deep pocket of a glove. The deep pocket is for catching a baseball. The pancake glove helps them to use more of the palm of their glove along with their top hand (throwing hand) in fielding. It also helps with transfer of the ball from glove to throwing hand.
We use the old fashioned football hip pads, the ones with the rubbery coating and the two straps that the belt goes through.

We put the thumb through one loop and the pinkie finger through the other, and trim off the lower part to get a shape that is similar to pancake gloves/soft hands trainers.

Works great. Problem is their using these fancy, foam type pads now that slip into girdles. Bummer.
gimages, Good question.
When useing a pancake glove, There's no way of closing it onto the ball.
So you are forced to stop the ball with the flat glove and free hand.
If you are stiff with the glove, The ball will bounce back away from you.
So you need to absorb the ball into the glove ( Soft Hand's ).
Also as I said in the earlier part of this post.
You use the glove to skip the ball into your throwing hand.
It's a technique to get the ball into the infielder's hand as quik as possible for the DP.
EH
gimages, have all your fielders take grounders with the pancake glove.

Have your MIF'ers turn the pivot on DP's using it.

And to teach outfielders to catch flyballs with two hands and have a quick transfer (e.g., runner tagging up scenario), have them catch flies using the pancake glove. They will swear it is humanly impossible, as the fly ball smacks off the glove and falls to the ground the first five or six times. But as they learn to be quick with their throwing hand, they will take pride in being able to catch the fly with a flat glove.

It is a useful tool.
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Originally posted by gimages:
The pancake glove sounds like a wonderful tool. How is the glove used? What kind of drills are done with the glove?


Besides taking grounders with the pancake, you should play catch. Sounds simple, but forces improvement in 2 areas...

1. Catching with 2 hands. Too many players at every level still catch the ball with one hand. Using the pancake, builds the 2 hand habit.

2. Better footwork. Since you can't just reach out to the side and snag off line throws, the pancake forces you to move your feet into better catching position where you can receive the ball with 2 hands. Important skill to develop.

Mike F
I asked my son about 2nd baseman using the back of their glove when making double players and he said that is some thing they never do.
Never owned a pan cake glove but my son is pretty quick at getting the ball out of his glove,I would attribute it to the wall ball he played in the basement.... Just throwing and catching a tennis ball as hard and as fast as he could for couple hours each night.....for years.

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