BY IAN BURGESS Ever since 2014, Mike Trout has been the face of Nike Baseball. Starting with the Nike Lunar Vapor Trouts, Mike became the first ballplayer since Ken Griffey, Jr. to get a signature cleat. It was a show-stopper. In 2015, the Zoom Trout 2 cleat AND TURF made Trout […]
Category: <span>Outfield</span>
Mike Trout played in his first spring game today, and WPW was there to see him debut—with a new glove. Trout dropped Nike and went back to the glove he wore when he first stormed into the MLB in 2012, the Rawlings Trap a la Griffey. This time, Trout gets […]
Platinum Glove winner Kevin Kiermaier’s ride to baseball excellence was unexpected, even to Kiermaier himself. In this extended interview, we discuss everything from his journey to the Bigs, his nickname “Outlaw,” and as a centerfielder myself, I couldn’t help but pick Kiermaier’s brain on the advanced techniques of the best […]
Gloves Wilson A2K 2800 (at First Base) Craig plays wherever the Cardinals can squeeze him in. At each position he wears Wilson’s most limited leather, the A2K series. The link above will take you to the 2014 version, but Craig is currently wearing the 2013 version, available here (as well as […]