GLOVE CARE CALCULATOR
How we Calculate Glove Care
After years of hands-on work with athletes at every level, we’ve developed a clear baseline for how often a glove should receive professional care.
Our goal isn’t to over-service your glove, it’s to keep it game-ready with the fewest, smartest interventions possible. By combining real-world wear data with factors like playing level, climate, position, surface, and glove construction, we’re able to recommend service intervals that protect performance and extend glove life.
As a baseline, most gloves benefit from a Clean & Conditioning every 40–60 hours of use. Relace timing varies more widely and is influenced by how and where the glove is used.
For example, a year-round middle school or high school infielder practicing a few times per week will typically need two professional services per year to maintain feel, shape, and structure.
Use the calculator below to dial in a standard of care that fits your glove. It takes just 5 questions, and each dropdown is explained further down the page. If you want help building a more customized plan, we’re always here...just reach out.
FIRST LET'S ADDRESS THE BIG PINK GORILLA IN THE ROOM
The #1 Risk to the
Integrity of your Glove
80% of leather damage risk occurs between uses - during storage, transport, and the hours your glove sits untouched
HOW YOU TRANSPORT AND STORE YOUR GLOVE MATTERS
- Temperature hot and cold pull oils out of leather, stiffens gloves, and cause cracking and brittleness.
- Humidity and Moisture soften or dry out leather and increase risk of mold and padding breakdown.
- Compression and Dust from your bag reshape, fatigue, and dehydrate glove leather at a rapid rate.
Garages, dirty bags, cars, and in most cases poor player habits create an overwhelming majority of the risk for Hot, Cold, Dry, Dirty, Wet, or Stagnant environments that ultimately cause premature failure in glove and lace leather.
Glove Care Calculator
Fill in the selections below and hit calculate for customized details and considerations for your glove.
Have multiple gloves? If so, run through the calculator a few times and determine the total service you'll need!
Definition details for each dropdown exist below.
Glove Care Factors
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SUBSCRIPTION RECOMMENDATIONS
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GLUV WRX Care Calculator
Question Definitions
How your glove is constructed lets us know the build quality of your glove so we can match care requirements with the needs of the materials used.
- Premium - These are top tier gloves made from premium leather and materials. These gloves typically ship much more stiff and take more time to break in due to their additional structure, but perform at a high level for the longest period of time.
Examples would be Rawlings HOH, Pro Preferred, or REV1X; Wilson A2000 or A2k; 44 Signature or Pro Series; Marucci Capital; or Most Kip leather gloves. - Performance - This line of gloves typically features a softer leather that is easier to break-in to be game ready right away.
Examples would be Rawlings R9, Liberty Advanced, Gold Glove (Dick's), or Encore; Wilson A1000, A700, or A500; 44 Classic or Youth; Marucci Oxbow or Accension.
If you are unsure which definition your glove falls under a standard rule of thumb is to go off glove price. Premium glove MSRP is typically $299 and higher. Performance gloves are typically $250 and lower.
Levels are important because it let's us know the time and performance demand on your glove.
- Youth - Rec: 5th Grade or under playing just during spring season
- Youth - Club/Travel: 5th Grade or under practicing and playing all year long, or most months of the year.
- Middle School - Rec: 6th to 8th Grade playing just during the spring season.
- Middle School - Club/Travel: 6th to 8th Grade practicing and playing all year long, or most months of the year.
- High School - Rec: 9th to 12th Grade playing just during the spring season.
- High School - Club/Travel: 9th to 12th Grade practicing and playing all year long, or most months of the year.
- College/Pro: 18+ practicing and playing at an elevated level all year long.
- Coach/Adult Rec: 18+ Recreational players and Coaches who rely on their glove, but don't have the same demand as an everyday player.
Understanding the position your glove will be used on the field allows us to calculate the usage demands it will see when you are using it.
- Pitcher
- Catcher
- 1st Base
- Infield
- Outfield
There are lots of ways we define the gloves we throw into our bags. We've done our best here to define 3 types of gloves that affect standard of care. Match your unique usage style into one of the options below.
- Primary Gamer: This is your highest priority glove that is your go to and most likely used during nearly all practices, games, and showcase events.
- Secondary Gamer: This is a glove you keep in your bag to be used in a position that isn't your primary spot and therefore doesn't see the same kind of usage as your primary gamer, BUT needs to be reliable under pressure.
- Backup: This is a glove you keep around and use on an as needed basis. May see more practices than games, especially if the weather is poor. Very likely an older glove that used to be your primary gamer. This glove sees the least amount of action, but like the others needs to perform when you reach for it.
Key environmental climate conditions can be derived from what part of the country you reside. Temperature, humidity, indoor/outdoor use by season throughout the year, and field types can be generalized across defined regions.
- Deep South + Hawaii: Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Alabama (AL), Mississippi (MS), Louisiana (LA), and Hawaii (HI)
- Mid-Atlantic: South Carolina (SC), North Carolina (NC), Virginia (VA), Maryland (MD), Delaware (DE), and Washington DC (DC)
- Texas+ Border Southwest: Texas (TX), Oklahoma (OK), Arkansas (AR), and New Mexico (NM)
- Southwest Interior: Arizona (AZ), Nevada (NV), and Utah (UT)
- Inland West Coast: Dry side of Cascades (Eastern Oregon (OR) & Eastern Washington (WA),
California - Inland Counties (examples: Sacramento Valley, Central Valley, Riverside, San Bernadino, Fresno, Bakersfield, etc) - Pacific Coast & Northeast Coast: Washington (WA) - West Side, Oregon (OR) - West Side, Coastal California (SF Bay Area, LA Basin, San Diego),
New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Connecticut (CT), Rhode Island (RI), Massachusetts (MA), Vermont (VT), New Hampshire (NH), and Maine (ME) - Upper Midwest & Great Lakes: Minnesota (MN), Wisconsin (WI), Michigan (MI), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Ohio (OH), Pennsylvania (PA), Kentucky (KY), Tennessee (TN), West Virginia (WV), Missouri (MO), Kansas (KS), Iowa (IA), Nebraska (NE), North Dakota (ND), and South Dakota (SD)
- Alaska & Northern Mountain: Alaska (AK), Montana (MT), Wyoming (WY), Colorado (CO), and Idaho (ID)
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