A Uniform Win

We guess that the MLB hierarchy sometimes does hear the fans.  There are not many topics that unite most baseball fans, but when it comes to the recent All-Star game uniforms, fans were pretty unified in their hate for these jerseys.  MLB though has finally felt the fans pain and decided to revert to allowing All- Stars to wear their own team’s uniforms in 2025, rather than the bland and boring designs that MLB created in 2024 and ever since 2019 as we previously reported.

The only caveat is that there will still be custom designed caps for the All-Star game for each league.  Well, the change back to the team uniforms are still a win in our opinion as well as for most fans.  We guess that MLB could not simply give up all the additional merchandising revenue associated with their special All-Star game uniforms, so they still wanted to hang on to something with at least the caps.  Yes, greed has no bounds when it comes to the owners.

Anyway, we will still call this a win.

Furthermore, when it comes to the regular season player uniforms MLB has also agreed to redesign those and provide more custom fits after regular complaints from the players.  These improvements “will include pant customization, increasing the sizing of the lettering and returning to previously used materials that the players requested”.  It was not just the players that complained about these uniforms, but also the fans, who readily saw the issues with the new uniforms in terms of their quality and the reduced size of the lettering.

In summary, these changes represent a rare win for the players as well as the fans.  The only loser is likely Nike, who will no longer continue to design the unappealing All-Star uniforms and will have to return to the drawing board to redesign their Vapor Premier uniforms that the players and fans utterly disdained.  We think the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) said it best when responding to the new 2024 uniforms by stating, “Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated”.

That is an excellent point made by MLBPA and a quote we could also apply to all the unnecessary rule changes that MLB continues to thrust on the fans today.  We will take this victory though and hope that MLB applies this same thinking when deciding upon whether to reverse out some of there most egregious rule changes in recent years.