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If you thought the quarantine would lead to more baseball families buying private batting cages to work on their swings at home (like we did) … you thought wrong.
In fact, the baseball equipment industry is getting hit pretty hard by the coronavirus pandemic — especially Jugs Sports, the company behind the famous pitching machines.
We spoke to a rep for the company who tells us March is usually the busiest time of the year for them — they ship out machines to little leagues and other baseball and softball orgs around the country before the season kicks off.
But with the COVID-19 outbreak, we’re told business has slowed in a big way — a 30% to 50% DECREASE in sales from last year.
We spoke with other baseball equipment companies and they’re also reporting a slow down in sales — so far, it seems Jugs is having the toughest go.
Makes sense … those Jugs machines ain’t cheap — they range from a couple hundred dollars for a basic model to a couple thousand dollars for the top of the line stuff.
Hopefully, business will pick back up once the pandemic is over and people go back to their normal lives … but for now, this sucks.