The Best Baseball Mits

The main differences are position based. Outfielders use larger webbed gloves that give them a little more reach and pocket since they will often make long runs to catch a ball in the air. Infielders use smaller and lighter gloves since the ball is usually traveling faster and mostly on the ground, they also have to get the ball out of the glove faster to throw out a runner. First base is designed for both catching very hard thrown balls and has a large surface that helps pick balls out of the dirt - they are the largest and heaviest of gloves. Catcher is of course designed to catch a 100mph fastball without breaking your hand. Then there are the pitchers....They use all types of infield or outfield gloves but they have to take into consideration anything on the glove that may be considered distracting to hitter (that is illegal for a pitcher) like a white logo on the strap and most pitchers pick their glove not for fielding but they take into account how their hand looks in the glove and can hitters pick up movement that gives away pitches - that's why you will almost never see a pitcher wearing a glove where 1 finger is exposed and pitchers use those gloves and have a patch sewn on to hide their finger.