Over the All-Star break, Verdugo may have found the reason for his down year: his batting gloves, according to ... 18 games and have the best record in baseball. Verdugo turned 28 in May and ...

The doctors told him, “You’re allergic to your batting gloves.” Verdugo couldn’t believe it. An MLB player who’s allergic to… playing baseball? It didn’t make any sense. However ...

John Ballas, Franklin’s senior director of baseball operations, promised to try to rectify the problem. The company’s product designers are looking into manufacturing batting gloves that don ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content ... an allergy to his batting gloves. According to NJ Advance Media, the Yankees' medical team recently referred Verdugo to an ...

What is different, according to Franklin, the company that is the official supplier of Major League Baseball batting gloves, is the chemicals used in the production of the gloves. No cobalt or ...

The Yankees sent Verdugo to an allergist, who concluded that Verdugo was probably allergic to his own batting gloves — specifically the chemicals cobalt and chromate. “Chromate is used in ...