We get it - your baseball bag is stuffed full of BBQ or Dill Pickle sunflower seeds and gum, spare baseballs you stole from the bullpen (don't lie), a no-longer-legal-BESR bat for cage laser shows, and a mitt that needs a serious relacing and reconditioning job (we recommend lanolin).

But there's a list of equipment you absolutely should carry around if you're a pitcher who cares about arm health.

The Bare Minimum

Here's the list of stuff you should keep in the bag at the bare minimum - not including your essentials, like cleats. You should never be caught dead without:

• A set of resistance bands - essential for pre/post arm care, warmup, and cooldown
• Small foam roller - gotta have it for self-myofascial release, mobility drills, and using as a pillow during double-headers you aren't pitching

Probably Should Have

• Driveline Plyo Ball ® - great for reverse tosses, shoulder warm-ups, IR/ER tosses, and post-throwing cooldown work
• Elite Weighted Baseballs - For in-season maintenance work like overload long toss or in-season pulldowns.
• Oates' Shoulder Tube - large and unwieldy, but the perfect rhythmic stabilization tool
• SKLZ Reaction Ball - awesome suggestion from Mike Reinold, great for reaching the lats, posterior shoulder, and teres major (read Mike's article on that)

Our guys use wrist weights all the time: