I'm one that hasn't cared about this at all. I still don't but... I think my daughter's team is still hoping to get a local September birthday girl who is everyone's same grade and pulling out of PGF tournaments.
I hate the double X laced at the bottom of that web with 3/16" lace. The X's don't break but a side does because it's not 1/4". I guess if you can afford that glove you can afford to relace it every year.
My daughter played some 16b this year. The pitching was pretty hit and miss. The girls on that team would crush the slower pitching but look silly against girls near 60. It's not their fault, they rarely see it. At 14a the best pitcher we saw probably hungout around 60 but threw a change...
They beat a really good Top Gun team 4-3. I had just never seen it happen. Almost every other batter the first basemen and the pitcher switched. I don't if know if they always do this or not.
Those do not look like the same pattern to me. And... I don't know what Morton is getting from these days. The traditional USA made pro 1000's were bowl like and would usually get a big wrinkle in the palm because of this.
We are in a mid size media market. Everyone knows who the problem parents are by 14u and their kids are taking on or not with them very much in the calculation.