Side question. Why do you guys play baseball with gloves? I'm from a Commonwealth country, so we don't really have baseball, only cricket. Growing up we never u

Side question. Why do you guys play baseball with gloves? I'm from a Commonwealth country, so we don't really have baseball, only cricket. Growing up we never used any gloves (although typically we were poor and played only with old tennis balls). Usually in cricket only the keeper will use gloves. Is it just a surface area thing?