MLB 2023 Uniform/Logo Changes

[damnyoutuesday]

1 hour ago, bob95 said:

I was in the Rockies team shop and I saw they were still selling replica black jerseys but they did not where them last year what’s going on?

Might just be getting rid of the remaining stock

[BBTV]

Todd Radom confirmed that the Phillies are indeed dropping the sleeve numbers. 
 

I didn’t necessarily care for them, but they were their thing. They owned that. This is   ing  .  , just… ! 

[BadSeed84]

I loved the Phillies sleeve numbers, it's damn shame they are gone, and especially the reason why.

[CaliforniaGlowin]

Mariners will wear green jerseys on Fridays at home and navy or green on the road.  I like it.

[adsarebad]

19 hours ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

Mariners will wear green jerseys on Fridays at home and navy or green on the road.  I like it.

Mariners only have the sleeve all star patch and no longer the team logo patch on the other sleeve?

[McCall]

42 minutes ago, adsarebad said:

Mariners only have the sleeve all star patch and no longer the team logo patch on the other sleeve?

I would assume that, for this year at least, they'll have the ASG patch on one sleeve and a potential ad on the other. If this happens, I wouldn't be surprised to see the logo replace the ASG patch in 2024.

[WSU151]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLYKGLMHKW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

Marlins with an IG post with more pics of the 93 unis…weirdly, some hats have the F logo centered on the seam, and some hats have the F logo off-set due to the logo’s balance. New Era should have figured this out. 

[Marlins93]

3 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLYKGLMHKW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

Marlins with an IG post with more pics of the 93 unis…weirdly, some hats have the F logo centered on the seam, and some hats have the F logo off-set due to the logo’s balance. New Era should have figured this out. 

 

I noticed those, too. My understanding is that the very first hats back in 1993 were centered on the logo itself rather than the F. This was later adjusted to have it centered around the F. I personally think it looks better centered around the F.

 

In those photos, the hats centered around the logo appear very vintage to me. Made out of wool and everything. I wouldn't be surprised if they either had a supply of c. 1993 hats in their warehouse or procured vintage ones for this photo op. Not saying this was necessarily a deliberate decision. I'd speculate it was simply what they had to work with until New Era manufactured the hats for game use.

 

[FiddySicks]

I have several old Marlins caps from that era (which I found mostly at a swap meet in Southern California, of all places), and one or two of them have the logo centered on the seam and they look very out of place and strange. If I can find them this afternoon, I’ll post a picture. The early era of that brand (and the Rockies brand, too) was sort of a mess in terms of material construction. The batterman logos are all different and quirky, too. I think one or two of them have the heat pressed batterman patch on the back as well? That might’ve been on hats from the year prior to the Marlins and Rockies, though. 
 

The inauguration of the Marlins brand specifically has always been sort of fascinating to me. It was such a weird era for sports merchandise. There were a bunch of different companies producing all of this stuff and things like the Marlins teal color, in particular, was all over the place. I think one of the original teal hats I have was a Sports Specialties branded cap, too (although it might be the early New Era tags. I’ll have to check). 

[Marlins93]

3 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

I have several old Marlins caps from that era (which I found mostly at a swap meet in Southern California, of all places), and one or two of them have the logo centered on the seam and they look very out of place and strange. If I can find them this afternoon, I’ll post a picture. The early era of that brand (and the Rockies brand, too) was sort of a mess in terms of material construction. The batterman logos are all different and quirky, too. 

Yes, I forgot the name of the company that made those hats for 1993. I used to know it.

 

I feel like people would appreciate the teal aesthetic from 1993 a lot more if the material construction were better. IMO the color wasn't the problem. The manufacturer just dropped the ball and made some dad hats with oddly placed logos.

 

The teal New Era hats worn by the players in 2018 looked amazing.

[FiddySicks]

Ok so weird thing about those Marlins throwback hats in 2018. That was the time when New Era was starting to fully shut down  their US production and the hats were listed as US made polyester. I’m not sure about the player issued caps, but the fan issued caps were decidedly NOT US made poly. They actually had a surplus of the old wool stock material from somewhere, and just used that with their new poly hat construction. I have one and it’s just about the strangest cap I own. It looks like a newer cap, but it feels thin and almost brittle. Sort of how a cap from 30 years ago feels now. It’s even more out of place because of the plastic anniversary patch on the side, which doesn’t fully seal onto the cap. 
 

In contrast to that, I was also able to find an unused 1997 World Series cap patch, and heat sealed it onto my black US poly Marlins cap. It’s beautiful. Probably my favorite cap I own. 

[Marlins93]

Oh, also, I am pretty sure that a white outline around the logo wasn't applied until later as well. That was added in addition to re-centering the logo. Here is what an authentic 1993 hat looked like, apparently. Although something about the silver here looks faded.

 

[Marlins93]

1 minute ago, FiddySicks said:

Ok so weird thing about those Marlins throwback hats in 2018. That was the time when New Era was starting to fully shut down  their US production and the hats were listed as US made polyester. I’m not sure about the player issued caps, but the fan issued caps were decidedly NOT US made poly. They actually had a surplus of the old wool stock material from somewhere, and just used that with their new poly hat construction. I have one and it’s just about the strangest cap I own. It looks like a newer cap, but it feels thin and almost brittle. Sort of how a cap from 30 years ago feels. 

 

I remember some of the discussions about this. If I recall correctly, the players wore US-made hats. And even some of that inventory found its way unto retail shelves for purchase. But the majority of those for the fans were made overseas. The one I own is foreign-made. I remember it feeling strange myself.

 

Okay, so I think the 1993 hats were made by Sports Specialties, but New Era took over in 1994, when MLB granted them the exclusive license.

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

31 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

New Era should have figured this out. 

 

The Reds' hats at that time, while beautiful, had inconsistencies with the placement of the pinstripes.

 

 

 

[Digby]

Pinstripes and patterns and such I think are forgivable, because different sizes will make those inconsistencies more likely or even inevitable maybe.

 

Stuff like where does the fish go and does it have an outline is much wackier and unprofessional if not consistent.

[Andrew_Gamer_NZP]

The A's wore their gold jerseys today, can't remember the last time they wore these.

 

[damnyoutuesday]

4 hours ago, Andrew_Gamer_NZP said:

The A's wore their gold jerseys today, can't remember the last time they wore these.

September 22nd, 2018

[BadSeed84]

The Athletics 4 + 1 or whatever should ansolutly be White, Gray, Kelly Green & Yellow.

 

They don't need 2 green jersey's.

[McCall]

This leads me to believe that they're possibly bringing back the gold jersey to replace one of the green jerseys because the city connect jersey is gonna be more greenbased.

[TBGKon]

Have the A's worn the dark green jersey in the past few years?  I seem to recall only seeing the kelly green being worn lately.