| meck21
September 12, 2017
2:18:52 PM
Entry #: 4230772
| Some have asked me about this year's t-shirts and why we aren't using the Major League Baseball emblems as in the past. I will pass along what I know. My understanding is that at the beginning of this year the MLB uniform contract that used to belong to Majestic was won by Under Armor. This includes all official MLB apparel as well. As you may recall, our t-shirts in years past were through Majestic. With this new deal in place, it was not possible for us to get the "MLB logo" shirts through Majestic anymore and UA is not quite ready either, which left us in limbo. For that reason, the league was forced to have our own shirts/jerseys printed for this year.
I think everyone liked the MLB logos so we'd like to go back to them eventually. That may depend on availability and cost...we'll see. Meanwhile, there are some advantages to the jerseys we are using this year. They are definitely lighter, which helps on those few hot September days. And there was a wider variety of colors available which should prevent teams from having the same colors (with the exception of that Yankees/Tigers matchup from this past Sunday!)
It was also discovered that some teams have players wearing the same jersey numbers, which can make score keeping difficult. This was inadvertent. The league will do its best to make sure this doesn't happen moving forward.
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