New Blue Jays uniforms?

[KennerKid]

Saw this:

 

Announcement to be made Jan 18 at winter fest.

 

Question is, is this a powder blue alternate or are they changing the sets altogether ?

 

http://news.sportslogos.net/2020/01/13/blue-jays-tease-new-blue-new-uniforms-coming/

[bzapple]

I'd be down for a return of the powder blue alternates.

[Carlos Danger]

I fnnn hate the powder blue and was happy because I thought gone for good. People who like the powder blue are probably the same people who wore a powder blue jacket/tuxedo to high school Prom.

[KennerKid]

So what do you guys think? Just an alternate set added to the current like other teams? The guys were just wearing the whites in Calgary over the weekend

[Orgfiller]

So what do you guys think? Just an alternate set added to the current like other teams? The guys were just wearing the whites in Calgary over the weekend

 

Definitely an alternate set. It would be too early to do a whole redesign and people like the current uniforms.

[KennerKid]

Definitely an alternate set. It would be too early to do a whole redesign and people like the current uniforms.

 

Yeah I DM with one of the beat writers and he confirmed this

[EMK19]

Yeah, I doubt we’ll ever go through another radical redesign again; the 2012 rollback to the old style was perhaps one of the most well received reboot/redesign that I’ve seen in MLB and I’m pretty sure we won’t go away from that again. Maybe at the most they’ll bring the powder blue piping back for the home/alternate jersey like 77-96 jerseys but I doubt we see any more than that as far as standard jerseys go.

 

With that said the powder blue have always been pretty popular with the fans as well and is part of our early history; and since pretty much all the clubs seem to have like 3-4 alternate jerseys anyways it won’t hurt for us to have another one. Hopefully it stays mostly true to our old 77-88 template as the 2012 reboot jerseys were to 89-96 ones.

 

As long as we never pull that Black Jays sh*t ever again I’m cool with adding some alternates.

[Jonn]

We don’t really need new jerseys. But I would be fine with a powder blue alternate. The current alternate blue is my least favourite of the 3. But its still decent. I just think they over wear them. The home whites are so sexy. And the road one is probably the best road jersey in Baseball. Top 3 for sure. I also like jerseys that say the cities name.

[EMK19]

We don’t really need new jerseys. But I would be fine with a powder blue alternate. The current alternate blue is my least favourite of the 3. But its still decent. I just think they over wear them. The home whites are so sexy. And the road one is probably the best road jersey in Baseball. Top 3 for sure. I also like jerseys that say the cities name.

 

Upvote x100 on home and away jerseys; in particular, I never understood why our gray roads were so neglected by our players during our recent playoff run years (actually for that matter our home whites were almost totally ignored during the playoffs as well; except maybe two games during that run we only wore the blue alternates), it's such a nice jersey.

 

Also agreed on the city name thing; I actually wonder why Raptors have gone away from that completely...

[dineke]

Powder blues are meh. Our alternate jersey is crap too. Bring on NEON BLUE.

[EMK19]

 

I am doubting they will bring back the neck striping or bring the bird to the centre as with the retro ones (although the new Padres jerseys do have neck striping so maybe that's not completely out of the question)... so I guess the key point will be whether the new jersey will have some entirely new design elements to it, or if it will just be the standard template + new colour…

[KennerKid]

Upvote x100 on home and away jerseys; in particular, I never understood why our gray roads were so neglected by our players during our recent playoff run years (actually for that matter our home whites were almost totally ignored during the playoffs as well; except maybe two games during that run we only wore the blue alternates), it's such a nice jersey.

 

Also agreed on the city name thing; I actually wonder why Raptors have gone away from that completely...

 

I’ve always thought our current home whites were as good of uniforms as there are in sports. I don’t understand why we don’t wear them more often.

[EMK19]

We likely won’t have to worry about the extreme case where they go for a total redesign to replace existing jerseys; Nike has already released the preview for all teams for this coming season with home jerseys and as far as I know, all the new designs are in there. (Padres, Rangers, Brewers etc): https://news.nike.com/news/nike-x-major-league-baseball-uniforms-2020-official-images

 

Since Nike is taking over I’m sure this is their way to cash in immediately with the change and divert people from buying old Majestic jerseys coming soon to the clearance racks near you...

[Beans]

I like the idea of powder blue alternates!

[FrozenRopes]

Seattle Seahawk colors...

[Beans]

[KennerKid]

We likely won’t have to worry about the extreme case where they go for a total redesign to replace existing jerseys; Nike has already released the preview for all teams for this coming season with home jerseys and as far as I know, all the new designs are in there. (Padres, Rangers, Brewers etc): https://news.nike.com/news/nike-x-major-league-baseball-uniforms-2020-official-images

 

Since Nike is taking over I’m sure this is their way to cash in immediately with the change and divert people from buying old Majestic jerseys coming soon to the clearance racks near you...

 

Very good find EMK

[Brownie19]

We likely won’t have to worry about the extreme case where they go for a total redesign to replace existing jerseys; Nike has already released the preview for all teams for this coming season with home jerseys and as far as I know, all the new designs are in there. (Padres, Rangers, Brewers etc): https://news.nike.com/news/nike-x-major-league-baseball-uniforms-2020-official-images

 

Since Nike is taking over I’m sure this is their way to cash in immediately with the change and divert people from buying old Majestic jerseys coming soon to the clearance racks near you...

 

Interesting. I'm not a fan of the 'swoosh' on the front of these new jerseys, but I must say I LOVE Toronto's current home jersey - and really - I love almost all the jerseys. Very few I cringe at from that list. What I didn't realize before reviewing that list was the variances in terms of the shoulder patches. Some teams have both shoulders covered, some only 1 and others without anything. I'm also not sure I realized that some teams have #'s on the front, while others didn't. Perhaps I'm not very observant...

[EMK19]

I randomly found this mock up someone did a year ago for powder blues with our current logo and typeface (http://ultimatebaseballlook.blogspot.com/2018/06/toronto-blue-jays-road-uniform-concept.html):

 

 

Now I'm sure the jersey will not be a pullover and thus doubt that the bird is moving to the centre either, but it would be interesting to see if they add that neck collar piping back into the jersey retro style (which the Padres' new retro-inspired jerseys have). I also kind of doubt that they'll add "Toronto" instead of "Blue Jays" since the team's marketing concept is about being Canada's team rather than just Toronto's alone (which is probably why Raptors have gone away from using "Toronto" also), but we'll see what happens. It's also probably more likely that the lettering will be in white with blue in-line instead of the above which is the reverse (we've used both style in the past but we had more years with the former than the latter)

 

We will also probably always wear the old white panel caps with them if it is indeed going with the whole retro theme.

[KennerKid]

I would like to say to them “ok, after this stop screwing with the jerseys.”

[KennerKid]

Has anyone heard more on this

[LGBJ29]

Has anyone heard more on this

 

they will be revealed saturday morning

[KennerKid]

I saw in Yamaguchi's press conference he was wearing the home whites. It is unlikely they would do a wholesale brand change or do away with that uniform and send players out like he and Ryu in the white, correct?

[dineke]

I saw in Yamaguchi's press conference he was wearing the home whites. It is unlikely they would do a wholesale brand change or do away with that uniform and send players out like he and Ryu in the white, correct?

 

If they have another brand change again fire Shapiro.

[EMK19]

Found another mock-up by Ian Hunter of Dailyhive

 

 

I didn’t think about the possibility of just re-introducing the old template as a throwback uniform (as we have done in the recent past, and like how the Raptors have done for this year). I wouldn’t rule it out completely. Looking at the first pic with our current template (with addition of neck stripings), it actually looks a bit awkward IMO so if that is the case then I’d rather they just bring back the old ones instead.

 

But if it’s anything like that middle one, then I may very well riot (NEVER bring back the black again). Leave that colour scheme to a team like Miami.

[LGBJ29]

Guys, they're adding one blue jersey, that's it. This isn't an entire brand change

[Spanky99]

Meh... who cares. Between the lines boys, GO JAYS GO!

[Deadpool]

Found another mock-up by Ian Hunter of Dailyhive

 

 

I didn’t think about the possibility of just re-introducing the old template as a throwback uniform (as we have done in the recent past, and like how the Raptors have done for this year). I wouldn’t rule it out completely. Looking at the first pic with our current template (with addition of neck stripings), it actually looks a bit awkward IMO so if that is the case then I’d rather they just bring back the old ones instead.

 

But if it’s anything like that middle one, then I may very well riot (NEVER bring back the black again). Leave that colour scheme to a team like Miami.

 

Of those three, I like the middle one the best. I don't particularly care for any of them, but I don't have a visceral hatred for the black uniforms that a lot of you seem to have.

 

Frankly for me it's Blue >>>> Black > White.

[EMK19]

Guys, they're adding one blue jersey, that's it. This isn't an entire brand change

 

Yeah, even in the promotional materials the logo is still our standard bird logo, plus as I’ve stated Nike has already officially announced all new designs for next year, so there will not be any massive re-design, rest assured. This is just a part of MLB and Nike adding a bunch of new alternates to make most of the launch of the new sponsor partnership.

 

TBH I think many out there are just worried and scarred from our past track record of doing some horrid re-designs in the past (T-bird on roids, vest uniforms, Black Jays, etc.).

[intrigid]

It would be colossally idiotic for the organization to do another redesign. The only reason they did so in 1997 was because the old one was very outdated. It wasn't received very well, and the 2003-2004 redesigns were even farther down the wrong path. They fixed everything in 2012. There's not a person in the world who would say that the current uniforms are outdated.