For the second time since 2018, we’ve compiled the data from the 2023 MLB season to bring you the catcher’s gear report. Focusing on the starting catchers listed on Baseball-Reference.com’s 2023 team pages, we examined the most popular brands of catcher’s gear, gloves, and masks used throughout the year. Catchers need gear that they can […]
What Bats and Batting Gloves Do Pro Baseball Players Use? Here’s Your 2023 MLB Hitting Report
We recently brought you the 2023 Glove Report so it’s only natural that we follow up with the tools of the trade for the offensive side of the game. Unlike leather, Big Leaguers have proven to be more open to having different brands in the rotation for when they step into the box. Here is […]
What Gloves Do MLB Players Wear? Here’s the Baseball Glove Brands and Webs Worn by MLB Starters in 2023
Every year, back to 2013, we track the top glove brands worn by MLB starters. As far as starting MLB players are concerned (excluding pitchers), Rawlings continues to hold a firm vice grip amongst glove brands, appearing on 53% of starting Major Leaguers. Meanwhile, the other major player, Wilson, gained three percent in 2023 compared […]
Specs Check: Big Leaguers’ 2023 Shades
As we grit our teeth through the very brief moments of sunlight we get this winter (at least here in the northeast), we certainly find ourselves longing for those bright summer days just a little bit extra. Let’s look back at the different brands, styles, and colorways of shades that Big Leaguers were wearing throughout […]
Yusei Kikuchi is the King of the Hill
I love coming across baseball glove brands that I had never heard of before. Yusei Kikuchi, lefty starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, was able to put me on to King of the Hill – a brand that one of his friends had started. Formerly a Mizuno guy, we saw the southpaw donning this […]