MLB 2022 Uniform/Logo Changes

[FiddySicks]

Yeah I’m sort of torn on the City Connect look for the Giants. They’re gaudy as all hell, and I still don’t love a lot of it. But they’re like 12-1 in them which rules, and the addition of the orange helmet also rules. If they’re gonna go gaudy, they might as well go full out. 

[McCall]

1 hour ago, shstpt1 said:

 

I think the SF logo would have even made more sense than just the G

 

Nothing says "city of  San Francisco" like the letter G...

[TBGKon]

20 hours ago, -Akronite- said:

Maybe I'm alone, but I wish the Rays stuck with the plaid bills. Looked good and gave them something unique to build around that wasn't a gradient or muddy colors. It'd work even better with the brighter blue and yellow too.

It was a nice one-off alternate, but I'm sold on it full time.

[jp1409]

5 hours ago, McCall said:

Nothing says "city of  San Francisco" like the letter G...

 

Gangsta?

[VandyDelphia Mike]

On 4/12/2022 at 6:13 PM, -Akronite- said:

Maybe I'm alone, but I wish the Rays stuck with the plaid bills.

Definitely not alone in that sentiment. It looked so good.

[BadSeed84]

They could've at least had the cooler G on the hats with the sweet old wordmark.

 

[Bmac]

A few notes from around the league:

 

-Most teams (not just the Phillies) are missing their alternate jerseys due to production delays. It'll be interesting to see who gets theirs first. San Diego has theirs, who else?

-Giants got permission to add the City Connect uniforms as a full time alternate. (can't imagine the league having any problem with that)

-Many promotional pieces from MLB feature the winged G logo on caps for Cleveland, rather than the new C. I'll try to get a screenshot.

[Digby]

7 hours ago, Bmac said:

-Giants got permission to add the City Connect uniforms as a full time alternate. (can't imagine the league having any problem with that)

 

 

I'm curious what this means in practice. Even last year we already saw City Connect jerseys that weren't confined to a single weekend or anything ... maybe they weren't worn as regularly as a standard alternate, but they also seemed like an ever-present sort of option if you wanted it.

[Digby]

On 2022-04-12 at 12:19 PM, Sport said:

The Rays do have an identity crisis, but not because of the sun ray/sting ray confusion. It's because they won't embrace their innate 1998ness. What I'd like to see them do is jazz up the jerseys.

 

The Rays, like most everyone else, really got dragged back into a conservative look when the baseball aesthetic pendulum swung back toward traditional. Not to say we need to go back to the rainbow guts and feather sleeve pullovers of yore, but some teams bend over backwards to appear so "traditional" that it hurts the look. The Rays are a main offender, as are the Astros' current orange/navy era. Going back to the 'Stros City jersey is a great example actually; laying a gradient on top of a very classic headspoon is an odd design choice. Just go fully modernist and take that piping out of it entirely.

[coco1997]

The Giants City Connect uniforms feel like they’re missing something. I can’t quite put my finger on it though.

[WSU151]

7 hours ago, Bmac said:

A few notes from around the league:

 

-Most teams (not just the Phillies) are missing their alternate jerseys due to production delays. It'll be interesting to see who gets theirs first. San Diego has theirs, who else?

-Giants got permission to add the City Connect uniforms as a full time alternate. (can't imagine the league having any problem with that)

-Many promotional pieces from MLB feature the winged G logo on caps for Cleveland, rather than the new C. I'll try to get a screenshot.

 

Brewers, Rays, Cubs, Reds, Nationals have worn alternate jerseys.

 

All City Connect jerseys are full time alternates for the next couple of years. 

[Sport]

25 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

 

Brewers, Rays, Cubs, Reds, Nationals have worn alternate jerseys.

 

All City Connect jerseys are full time alternates for the next couple of years. 

I don't know about the Brewers, Cubs, or Nationals, but the Reds and Rays just wore their spring training tops. Those weren't their regular alternate jerseys. 

[WSU151]

33 minutes ago, Sport said:

I don't know about the Brewers, Cubs, or Nationals, but the Reds and Rays just wore their spring training tops. Those weren't their regular alternate jerseys. 

 

The Rays made that design their full time alternate this year. The light blue jersey with "Rays" has been replaced. 

 

The Cubs wore their blue jerseys against the Pirates yesterday. The Brewers wore their navy alts on Opening Day in Chicago. Nats wore their red alternates yesterday.  Also, the Guardians and Royals wore their alt jerseys on Monday. 

[McCall]

3 hours ago, coco1997 said:

The Giants City Connect uniforms feel like they’re missing something. I can’t quite put my finger on it though.

The bottom of the letters and numbers.

 

And Black.

[coco1997]

2 hours ago, McCall said:

The bottom of the letters and numbers.

 

And Black.

 

Ah, but then that sounds just like something they'd wear every day of the season.

 

I'm starting to think the Giants just needed to go in a completely different direction for their City Connects. 

[sitboaf]

1 hour ago, coco1997 said:

 

Ah, but then that sounds just like something they'd wear every day of the season.

 

I'm starting to think the Giants just needed to go in a completely different direction for their City Connects. 

Yeah. The frustrating this is this: San Francisco HAS a color. I'm having a hard time thinking of any city that identifies with a single color better than SF does with International Orange, the color of the Golden Gate Bridge.  AND THEY DIDN'T USE IT.

[monkeypower]

7 hours ago, sitboaf said:

Yeah. The frustrating this is this: San Francisco HAS a color. I'm having a hard time thinking of any city that identifies with a single color better than SF does with International Orange, the color of the Golden Gate Bridge.  AND THEY DIDN'T USE IT.

 

I'm wondering if they questioned what the point of using (what could be viewed as) a slightly different orange would be. It's not like the Giants normal colours are navy and red where the International Orange would be a marked and intentional departure, it would just be kind of different where it may have just looked like a misprinted/miscoloured jersey. 

 

They may have just figured the Giants are famously already orange and figured it was good enough to bridge (ha!) the gap and get the point across.

[itsmb8]

22 hours ago, Bmac said:

A few notes from around the league:

 

-Most teams (not just the Phillies) are missing their alternate jerseys due to production delays. It'll be interesting to see who gets theirs first. San Diego has theirs, who else?

-Giants got permission to add the City Connect uniforms as a full time alternate. (can't imagine the league having any problem with that)

-Many promotional pieces from MLB feature the winged G logo on caps for Cleveland, rather than the new C. I'll try to get a screenshot.

 

The Brewers have already wore their gray, navy, and now cream jerseys this season.  Assuming they wear the pinstripes this weekend, they will have all of their jersey options available with zero delays.

[TBGKon]

23 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

The Rays made that design their full time alternate this year. The light blue jersey with "Rays" has been replaced. 

Which may have been a decision based on the situation.  The Rays also have a navy blue alternate that has yet to be seen, so we'll see I guess.

[MJWalker45]

It's weird to me that they are doing this for Jackie Robinson day. the patch has the team's normal number font but the back of the jersey is a Dodger blue 42. Just have the team's normal font on the back and use the 75th anniversary patch on the sleeve.