2008 MLB Uniform Changes leaked

[Young Drachma]

here

The most notable change is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays going to call themselves the Tampa Bay Rays.

List of updates for the following season:

Arizona
-Modification to alternate jersey lettering
-Modification to batting practice jersey lettering
-Modification to uniform sleeve patch
-Addition of commemorative sleeve patch

Atlanta
-Modification to BP cap

Chicago White Sox
-Elimination of alternate sleeveless home uniform

Cincinnati
-Modification to batting practice headwear mark (the two-color MLB logo on the back of official caps)

Cleveland
-Elimination of current alternate home uniform
-Addition of alternate home uniform and cap
-Removal of metallic silver in all Club logo, uniform lettering and marks

Florida
-Removal of commemorative patch

Kansas City
-Addition of alternate jersey (old school sky blues!)
-Modification to batting practice cap trim
-Modification to coloration of uniform sleeve patch

Los Angeles Dodgers
-Addition of commemorative sleeve patch

Milwaukee
-Removal of commemorative sleeve patch

Minnesota
-Modification to batting practice cap trim
-Removal of commemorative sleeve patch

New York Mets
-Addition of commemorative sleeve patch

New York Yankees
-Addition of commemorative left sleeve patch
-Addition of All-Star Game right sleeve patch at commencement of All-Star balloting through All-Star Game

Oakland
-Modification to alternate home jersey lettering
-Modification to alternate cap headwear mark

Philadelphia
-Elimination of alternate cap
-Addition of alternate uniform and cap

San Diego
-Modification to batting practice jersey lettering
-Modification to batting practice cap

San Francisco
-Removal of All-Star Game patch
-Addition of commemorative patch

Seattle
-Removal of commemorative patch
-Modification to batting practice cap

St. Louis
-Removal of World Series Champion sleeve patch

Tampa Bay Rays
-Complete identity change including Club name and Club colors

Toronto
-Change to road jersey lettering
-Addition of sleeve patch to road jersey
-Change to batting practice jersey lettering
-Addition of alternate uniform (all-sky blue pullover jersey from the 80s)

Washington
-Addition of commemorative sleeve patch

[Young Drachma]

[Young Drachma]

And the Blue Jays finally put some blue back in their jerseys, reverting an old 80s retro standard.

[Karlifornia]

Haha. Those Blue Jays uniforms are terrible. Button-down, short-sleeved (read: no sleeveless) shirts are the way to go. The Blue Jays will be wearing my pajamas for the next year. That's good, if they need to run to the kitchen for a glass of milk during a game next year, but for baseball? At best, they look like a slo-pitch team. And that baby blue...ugh..when it works, it looks really good (see:UCLA), but when it doesn't work, it's terrible.

Oh, and I hereby welcome the Tampa Bay Mariners into the league.

[k0ruptr]

I like the jays jerseys

[Young Drachma]

Anything is better than the Blue Jays wearing black. Even if it's just once a week. And I hate how they jettisoned the Maple Leaf in recent years, so....it's good to go back to the old look, because we were most successful in it.

I don't prefer this one as much as I do the look the team wore during the '92 and '93 title seasons, but baby steps I guess.

[Karlifornia]

I really think they need to do just..uhm...royal blue, is it? No....Well, darker blue and white. That would look really sharp if they designed it right. I think their logo is timeless (which is amazing, considering how new the franchise is).

[Young Drachma]

[Young Drachma]

That's what they need to go back to. Retro? Sure. But what they have now is no good. And they've been misfiring constantly since they left that design.

[Terps]

I wish the O's would put Baltimore back on the road jerseys.

[sterlingice]

I've always thought Tampa should have been called the Sting Rays because Devil Rays was, well, dumb.

SI

[Toddzilla]

No changes in the Cubs uni's

[CraigSca]

I love the retro Blue Jays look. Their lettering and numbering was always cool. Their current jersey with the "angry" Blue Jay looks stupid to me.

[bryce]

Maybe I have 'Good Ole Days' Syndrome, but I love those 80s unis, pretty much all of 'em, even the old orange TB Bucs unis. Ok, one exception - the old off-white Astros with multi-color stripes, those were truly terrible.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Sweet! KC back in the powder blue unis. Royals fans have been asking for the return of the powder blues for some time.

[JPhillips]

Cincinnati
-Modification to batting practice headwear mark (the two-color MLB logo on the back of official caps)

Thank God Cincy is finally fixing that.

[cuervo72]

I would *love* to see more powder blue unis come back, always liked them. Good to see the Jays going to a "retro" alt too. This current stuff...not good.

[Maple Leafs]

Some day somebody will write a book about stupid marketing decisions and have a chapter about the Blue Jays uniform changes in the last decade

"Well, on the one hand we have years of history with a certain logo and color scheme, which includes the glory years when we the most popular brand in the entire city and were winning world championships. On the other hand, this forecasts says that if we change everything we may increase merchandising sales by 0.1%. Let's change it!"

Seriously, I get angry just thinking about this.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Some day somebody will write a book about stupid marketing decisions and have a chapter about the Blue Jays uniform changes in the last decade

"Well, on the one hand we have years of history with a certain logo and color scheme, which includes the glory years when we the most popular brand in the entire city and were winning world championships. On the other hand, this forecasts says that if we change everything we may increase merchandising sales by 0.1%. Let's change it!"

Seriously, I get angry just thinking about this.

+1

I've spent the past thirteen years or so, shaking my head. I mean, it's not like the team hadn't experienced success or that there wasn't a blueprint for HOW you make a successful ballclub in that city. I just don't understand what those fools are doing up there other than trying to turn the Jays into some sort of novelty act or make the false assumption that since no one in the Lower 48 supposedly "cares" about the team, that they have to do more to "spruce" up the team's image or whatever.

Clearly, it hasn't worked. They need to cut it out and get back to basics.

[SnDvls]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Some day somebody will write a book about stupid marketing decisions and have a chapter about the Blue Jays uniform changes in the last decade

"Well, on the one hand we have years of history with a certain logo and color scheme, which includes the glory years when we the most popular brand in the entire city and were winning world championships. On the other hand, this forecasts says that if we change everything we may increase merchandising sales by 0.1%. Let's change it!"

Seriously, I get angry just thinking about this.

can say close to the same thing about the Diamondbacks...or D-Backs as they seem to prefer now

[MrDNA]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

I would *love* to see more powder blue unis come back, always liked them. Good to see the Jays going to a "retro" alt too. This current stuff...not good.

+1

I miss this Phillies uni:


Er... like from when I was two. The new alt is kinda dull.

[path12]

Originally Posted by bryce

Maybe I have 'Good Ole Days' Syndrome, but I love those 80s unis, pretty much all of 'em, even the old orange TB Bucs unis. Ok, one exception - the old off-white Astros with multi-color stripes, those were truly terrible.

C'mon. The brown and yellow Padres unis?

[stevew]

I liked it better when the Phillies were more Maroon, and less Red.

[cuervo72]

You know, I welcomed the switch to the 50's look (and the red) when it came, but I wouldn't mind seeing the maroon back either.

[Buccaneer]

As one growing up in the 70s, I hated those garish softball units. Many don't like the uni-color jerseys and pants of football, so why have them (or bring them back) in baseball?

[cuervo72]

As opposed to uni-color white, or uni-color gray?

[Buccaneer]

White and gray are not colors.

[cuervo72]

Hrm...how about all black then?

[saldana]

is changing the name and colors in tampa somehow going to help them not suck?

[saldana]

dola, for those of you who like the powder blue uniforms, keep an eye out for the Philadelpha EAGLES throwbacks they are gonna be sporting (not sure if it this weekend or not)...not sure when exactly they are throwing back to, but they are gonna be as bad or worse than the crap the steelers were wearing last week.

[Bubba Wheels]

Originally Posted by saldana

dola, for those of you who like the powder blue uniforms, keep an eye out for the Philadelpha EAGLES throwbacks they are gonna be sporting (not sure if it this weekend or not)...not sure when exactly they are throwing back to, but they are gonna be as bad or worse than the crap the steelers were wearing last week.

Heard the Lions are playing Phil this week in 1935 throwbacks...make the Lions look like the first year of FBPro.

[stevew]

those eagle uniforms are fugly.



They should have thrown them back.

[saldana]

Originally Posted by stevew

those eagle uniforms are fugly.



They should have thrown them back.

nice....i didnt think they had a pic of them up....the helmets are yellow with blue, and are equally ugly

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by saldana

is changing the name and colors in tampa somehow going to help them not suck?

Tampa's got some serious young talent, both hitting (which most people know) and pitching (which most people don't know). Their brutal fielding this year is obscuring how well their staff has done, especially since jettisoning Fossum and Seo, but there's talent there now and in their minors.

Chuck LaMar wasn't much as a GM, but his replacement Andrew Friedman is doing a very good job.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by saldana

nice....i didnt think they had a pic of them up....the helmets are yellow with blue, and are equally ugly

It's like a titans alt jersey with funky colors. not cool.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Tampa's got some serious young talent, both hitting (which most people know) and pitching (which most people don't know). Their brutal fielding this year is obscuring how well their staff has done, especially since jettisoning Fossum and Seo, but there's talent there now and in their minors.

Chuck LaMar wasn't much as a GM, but his replacement Andrew Friedman is doing a very good job.

Let's be honest here. Do you realistically see any scenerio whereby in the next 5 years they can actually finish 2nd in the division, and make the playoffs. Unless Boston or NY decide to shit the bed, it just isn't going to happen. Hell, the Jays are a fairly good team as well.

[LloydLungs]

Originally Posted by saldana

nice....i didnt think they had a pic of them up....the helmets are yellow with blue, and are equally ugly

Wow, those Eagles throwbacks look exactly like the football version of the New Orleans Hornets. And yes, the Hornets really need new unis...

[cuervo72]

Hrm. I actually like powder blue and yellow.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

Heard the Lions are playing Phil this week in 1935 throwbacks...make the Lions look like the first year of FBPro.

You really suck.

The Lions throwbacks are the best in the league. Seriously.

[Jim G.]

The Ray Rays can try this new slogan:

[Bubba Wheels]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

You really suck.

The Lions throwbacks are the best in the league. Seriously.

No, they are not. You cannot have a decent throwback from an era that used leather helmets.

All the teams with the decent throwbacks come from the AFL. Since that started in the 60s the teams all kind of look like they did back then.

[GreenMonster]

No changes with the Red Sox uniforms. Shocking..

[Maple Leafs]

By the way, do all these new baseball home and away uniforms mean that some teams are actually going to go back to having home and away uniforms? You know, instead of every team having like eight different jerseys and three types of pants and they just randomly pick a combination every game? White, dark, home, away, who cares just put something on and play?

See, I warned you, I get angry about this.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by stevew

Let's be honest here. Do you realistically see any scenerio whereby in the next 5 years they can actually finish 2nd in the division, and make the playoffs. Unless Boston or NY decide to shit the bed, it just isn't going to happen. Hell, the Jays are a fairly good team as well.

Yeah, I do. Boston is likely always going to be in the hunt with the current ownership and GM. The Yankees? Not necessarily, not with a wild card like Steinbrenner in control. People seem to forget the 80's, when his ridiculous tempestuousness with managers and GM's and stupid free agent spending kept them out of the playoffs from 1982-1994. If Steinbrenner gets a wild hair, cans Torre and/or Cashman and goes batshit crazy again, the Yankees could certainly tumble.

And yes, the young talent in Tampa's system is that good. Toronto? They'll keep floating around 3rd place territory, trying to look competitive, but Ricciardi ain't Beane or Epstein.

[Logan]

Steinbrenner is in bad health and has almost no involvement with the team. Those days of him making insane decisions are gone, unfortunately.

[stevew]

The Yankees have an impressive crop of young pitchers, and can buy any hitter they want. I think there is almost zero chance they fall off for the next 5-10 years.

[Young Drachma]

Crop? I wouldn't call it a crop. Either way, I think that it's unlikely they're going to fall off like they did from say 1983-1994.

[korme]

Originally Posted by Terps

I wish the O's would put Baltimore back on the road jerseys.

I wish all teams would have their city insignia on the road


BTW, I really like the "Rays" new logo, it's pretty clean and sharp.

On the other hand, there goes another team that gives up their unique colors and reverts to some sort of blue. Wahoo, a league full of blue and red teams.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Bubba Wheels

No, they are not.

Yes, they are.