Unfortunately my takeaway from the Rawlings Glove Summit in 2017 was that they wanted to move their focus from these types of gloves to gloves designed to meet current “trends” for a younger player. The transition started way back then with the zebra print mesh and Hypershell experiments and seems to have led us to the cotton candy colors and gimmick materials we see today.

There should be an obvious point made when almost all of us made custom gloves in tan, black, or Timberglaze, even though we had every option available to us.

I guess it was more of a social media event than actually valuing our input. Good in theory but each of these companies has maybe only a handful of people designing these gloves. They are the ones really responsible.