Spiderz batting gloves are great. They do hold up very well. I have some that are stiff, but they are a few years old. My guess is in AZ you'll get one season/ year out of them, then because of the sweaty hands and super hot weather, they'll get stiff. But really even the stiff ones only take a minute to loosen up. I normally get the top end ones, love the pros and I do wear the endites now. The pros are I think the best. The guys at Spiderz are local here the only issues I've had were a pair I got for my niece split a seam the first day of use and they replaced them no questions, it happens from time to time, it's not perfect, and a buddy of mine first wore them tore the wrist strap off, turns out he was stuffing his xxl sausage hands into an XL glove.