So I'm in the market for a new catchers mitt, I was wondering what gloves come pre oiled as I do not want a pre oiled glove. So a better question to ask would be, what baseball gloves are not pre oiled?!
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OK, Newman, you've posted basically the same question about which catchers glove to get on four different threads. You got great advice and were down to the A2K and Pro Preferred, both great choices and not pre-oiled. Just curious, what is the purpose of asking yet again?
I am wondering if either of them are pre oiled I need these gloves to last me three years and I need to be absolutely positive on which glove to get
If you want a glove made with great leather and not broken it at all then either get a custom Wilson A2000 (and select traditional stiff) or a custom Rawlings Heart of the Hide from Eastbay which is made in the Rawlings St. Louis Custom Shop and not the Rawlings facilities in the Phillippines (select the stiff option). This will give you a glove close to what the pro's order and will have the best chance of lasting 3 years. Of course, how you treat your glove will be the biggest determiner of how long it will last.
Originally Posted by sowilson:
If you want a glove made with great leather and not broken it at all then either get a custom Wilson A2000 (and select traditional stiff) or a custom Rawlings Heart of the Hide from Eastbay which is made in the Rawlings St. Louis Custom Shop and not the Rawlings facilities in the Phillippines (select the stiff option). This will give you a glove close to what the pro's order and will have the best chance of lasting 3 years. Of course, how you treat your glove will be the biggest determiner of how long it will last.
...and while this is accurate, the A2K and Pro Preferred will be plenty stiff for a player just entering HS. Unless you are a freshman phenom and will be catching a strong varsity staff right away, the pitchers you will be catching won't throw hard enough to break in a really stiff glove very quickly. If you are a normal freshman, your lack of hand/forearm strength won't help either. Also, while many pre-oiled gloves are a bit soft off the shelf, you will still want to use some type of conditioner as part of your glove break-in and care routine.
I recently talked to my summer coach and he is the freshman coach for my high school (there is a freshman sophmore and then varsity and jv level teams). My coach said that I am easily the best catcher on the team and that I should make the sophmore team as the reason I was on the freshman team this summer was to change the way I popped up.We changed it to a step or two instead of pop throw as my freshman arm can't make it there on a pop throw as quickly as a step throw. So I will be catching for sophmores and I feel like if I got a glove wasn't pre oiled It would give me a reason to work on my catching as I would practice with a stiff glove and I will have time to break it in.