Episode 67: For this episode I am down in Bradenton, FL at IMG Academy with Dean Moss a Class of 2025 outfielder who is currently Committed To play at Vanderbilt! We sat down as he went through his entire bag and his unique things he uses. Be sure to give him a Follow @DeanMoss54_ and Give me a Follow As Well @ShotByHype on Instagram.
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I'm a 2025.
I play outfield.
I go to IMG Academy and I'm committed to Vanderbilt.
This one's in my bag.
I guess I'll start off with this bat right here.
This is my summer bat.
This is my summer woody.
In the summer, I usually use wood bats.
This is the bat I go with.
I'll start off at the bottom.
It's 33.5, which means it's 30 ounces, 30.5 ounces.
And then I use Gamma Tape.
It's actually tennis tape.
But to me, it's the most...
I mean, it looks bad right now,
but it's the most comfortable.
And my swing, I kind of grip the bat hard,
so it just grips all the grip down.
This is what I use.
It's a Trinity bat.
It's actually a pretty small company.
It's in LA.
But I like the wood.
It's pretty natural.
I like it.
It's my favorite.
And then I got it customized.
It says DMOS on it.
It's a Pro Model 27.1.
And I also wrote nobody cares on it
because that's just my motto.
I mean, if you strike out, nobody cares.
Just go on to the next set of bat, and you'll be good.
So that's how I think.
Okay.
We'll move on to my high school bat
because I usually use metal in high school.
Again, this one's a 33.
I like swinging lighter metal bats
because I love my bat speed.
And it's crucial to me
because my hands are quick.
We got the Gamma Tape, just like I said.
Tennis Grip.
All that.
This is a DeMarini bat.
It's the Goods.
It's called the Goods.
To me, it's my favorite because it's end-loaded,
but I also feel like you can swing it well
even though it is end-loaded.
I'm a balance-bat guy,
but this is my favorite end-loaded bat.
That's why I use it.
It has a lot of pop, too, throughout the barrel.
You can hit it right here.
You still get a double.
You can hit it at the end.
And I feel like the sweet spot is more towards the end,
so that's why I like this bat.
I tarred it up.
Got tar all over it.
Yeah, but this bat,
I use it a lot.
Okay.
Move on to my glove.
This is my Gamer right here.
I got it customized at the PG Select Fest
this summer.
It says PG here.
I got my name on it.
It says Dean Moss.
Yeah, it's Rawlings.
I got it hard of the hide 12-3 force right here.
This is the inside.
I decided to get it blue and black.
I just want to be a little bit different.
I didn't want to be flashy.
Most people get flashy clothes.
It was actually on Perfect Games' Instagram
a couple days ago,
but I lost in the voting.
I won the first round, though.
But I got a finger hood, too.
Finger hoods are mostly for pitchers.
Most people don't like it,
but I love it.
It's my type of thing.
I want to be unique.
I want to be different,
and I got a finger hood.
It fits well in the outfield.
I just go like this.
Move on to the helmet.
This is my IMG Gibbon helmet.
I put a pine tar on my helmet
just in case my gloves get a little slippery
and the pine tar gets dry in the mid-at-bat.
I just tap my helmet right here.
It's like that.
It's a little thing I do
before I get in the box.
I go like this to my head.
When I put it on, I go like that.
That's a little thing.
This is my IMG Gibbon helmet.
It's dummy, right?
I love it.
Next, I'll go with my IMG glove.
This is my kind of practice glove.
I throw with it with no luck.
It says DMOS.
It says IMG on it.
This one's also a heart of the high 12.
It's pretty much the same thing.
I just got a different colorway.
I got light blue for IMG,
and then I got the gray and tan.
I don't know.
I just felt like it would be cool.
The reason I don't use it in games
is because I actually got the finger hood
on the wrong side.
It should be right here,
but I got it right here.
I don't know why they did that,
but I love the glove.
It's more broken in than that one,
but I like that glove better.
Yeah.
Move on to my batting gloves.
This is probably the most important thing about me.
I love my batting gloves.
I've had these for six months.
I like Bruce Bolts.
They last very long.
I like how they protect my wrist
because I actually had a wrist surgery a couple,
I would say probably eight months ago
or something like that on my wrist.
It protects my wrist from twisting
because I got,
it was actually cartilage in my wrist,
so it protects it from bending back
and stuff like that.
They have holes in them,
but I'm going to use them
until they break open.
I don't really care.
These are my favorite.
I hit really well with them.
Yeah, and I just love,
I love Bruce Bolts,
so this is my favorite batting glove.
Got my bands.
I do my bands every day.
These are really important for my arm.
I had a lot of arm problems,
but probably last year,
last high school year,
I had a lot of arm problems.
I didn't have surgery or anything,
but my arm was,
it just always hurt,
and then I didn't really do bands much,
but I've done bands much this year,
and my arm has been way better.
I throw a lot harder from the outfield.
I pretty much never feel pain,
so I mean,
the only difference I've made
is doing bands every day
and long tossing,
so that's what I do,
and these bands are a crucial,
crucial part of if you want to throw,
if you want to throw the baseball
in a better way.
I got my cleats right here.
I need to clean them,
but yeah,
these are Under Armour.
We're supposed to use Under Armour at IMG,
so these are my favorite Under Armour cleats.
I love them.
They're really light,
but they're also,
I have huge feet,
so I like light shoes.
I like these,
the laces,
because they don't get untied
because they have little,
I guess you could say levels to them.
I don't know how to say it,
but yeah,
I love these cleats.
Yeah,
but I really do need to clean them.
I was talking to my agent the other day.
He said they make you clean your cleats
in the big leagues,
and so I got to do that,
but yeah,
these are my cleats for the game.
I got some Gamma Tape,
some more Gamma Tape,
and then my gamer glasses right here.
These are 100%.
I use these in the game.
These are called Speed Crafts.
I love them because they look cool,
and also they actually are really good in the sun,
so that's why I love 100%.
They're my favorite brand of glasses,
and then I also,
I don't have them here,
but I also have another brand of glasses called Velos.
I got them from a bullpen training the other day.
He gave me them for free.
I've been wearing those every day,
so I also like those,
so go check out Velos.
I like those,
and then 100% too.
Anyways, that's what I have in my bag.
Thank you for watching.