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Major League Baseball announced on Monday that after just one season, the league will be replacing the terrible new “advanced” Fanatics uniforms that were introduced this past spring.
Between the pants being see-through (and not being available), the material and lettering looking cheap (and falling apart), and numerous complaints about them from just about everyone, the uniforms were a complete nightmare.
Now, six months later, Major League Baseball is getting rid of them.
“…changes are in the works for overall home and road team uniforms beginning next season and will include pant customization, increasing the sizing of the lettering and returning to previously used materials that the players requested,” Major League Baseball said in a press release.
“The decision to move forward with these modifications was finalized over the last few days, following collaboration between MLB, Nike, Fanatics and the Major League Baseball Players Association. The changes will begin in 2025 and will be fully implemented by the start of the 2026 season.
“MLB’s new Nike Vapor Premier jersey design was introduced in 2024 to improve mobility and fit. MLB, Nike and Fanatics partnered with the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to conduct a leaguewide survey to determine how best to move forward following criticism from some corners about the more lightweight look and smaller letters.
“After receiving feedback, all parties set about addressing the players’ requests for enlarged letters for player names, embroidered sleeve patches and reverting back to full pant customization.”
Unfortunately, for some reason, it is going to take until 2026 for all uniforms to be returned “to using the previous materials from the 2023 season.”
Also, Major League Baseball FINALLY listened to its fans for once and All-Star Game “players will once again represent their ‘hometown’ teams for the game itself, as was the case from the 1930s through 2019.”
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred infamously stated in 2022 about All-Star Game uniforms, “I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us.”
He was almost universally criticized for that statement.
Of course, this is also the same guy, charged growing and protecting the game, who called World Series trophy “a piece of metal.” Now we just have to figure out how to get rid of him.