MLB Players Weekend is returning in 2024.
Fortunately, it won’t be featuring any of the whimsical jerseys of the first couple years, nor the horrid Spy-vs-Spy uniforms of the past. This time around, MLB is eschweing screwing with the unis, and even the caps — which will be worn for Players Weekend — will only be slightly tweaked.
Here are a couple examples.
As you can see, the caps are what the teams normally wear, with the exception of a specific player number embroidered onto the right side of the cap. Each number is rendered in a sort-of ransom note font. Each digit is specific to the number, not the team or player. In other words, if a player wears No. 27 for the Blue Jays, that same No. 27 will also appear on a Houston Astros cap.
I have done my best to isolate the specific numbers to be used on each cap.
I appreciate that they’re not creating new caps for Players Weekend, but adding this to the side of the cap seems pretty superfluous. And kinda stupid. But I guess there are collectors out there who’ll purchase one of these event-specific caps.
Here are all the caps that have been released so far (more will likely be added).
Depending on the team, some of the colors of the ransom note font won’t be especially visible, like the “5” on a red cap.
Sigh. Once again, MLB and its designers are too clever by half. What’s the point of designing a special font if it won’t be visible?
As mentioned at the top, MLB Players Weekend is back — so if there are no special uniforms, and only slightly modified caps, what are teams doing this year?
According to MLB, “MLB will celebrate players’ personalities, their interests and the charitable causes they support. The reimagined event aims to showcase players beyond their on-field performance, telling their stories and appealing to young baseball fans and casual followers of the sport. … [P]layers will be able to use custom bats and wear personalized cleats (as is customary throughout the regular season), and they will have specially designed New Era caps for 2024 Players’ Weekend.”
Players Weekend this year will be August 16 (Friday) through August 18th (Sunday).
When will the stupid ugly bullshit stop? In all sports
When it stops making money.
How are they making enough money on this to even justify the effort for this?
I as hoping each digit represented a team important to the particular player. Maybe the team he broke into the bigs with or a minor league team that was critical in his development, maybe even representing his college or high school or kids’ travel team! With most players, they could have chosen their fonts/colors way back in Spring Training. Late arrivals would have been a touch trickier, but the majority could have be ready to go. The numbers could have said something about the individual player on players’ weekend in a a cool uni-centric but not overwhelming way.
This definitely failed the “Is this stupid or is it awesome” test.
Can you make th jerseys with number put colorful number just like the hat and put them with the pants and make the jersey black and white
I don’t get it. With all the “storytelling” that accompanies each new uni, they didn’t release the story/inspiration for each of the numbers?
So, it’s just a bunch of random designs, then? Dumb.
Huh? I don’t understand the purpose of the random “ransom note” numbers. So silly. MLB must have watched the NFL grab the lead in the worst uniform idea rankings and came up with this turd.
Apparently, no one at MLB saw how awful the Cleveland Cavs “ransom note” uniforms looked.
Miami Heat?
Miami Heat. I have a knockoff version in white and only my girlfriend likes it.
I can decide whether I’m sad, disappointed, or disgusted to think there are actually people who go to work and draw a paycheck to come up with this kind of shit.
Well, I meant I CAN’T decide…
“I can decide” yes for all.
I will buy one of these on one condition. They must be at Ross Dress for Less for $9.99 or less.
So every player with the same uniform number has the same story to tell? Just end this stupidity once and for all.
It just looks gross.
I forget where I read it, but the perfect Players Weekend would involve letting players wear their college/high school/travel ball/little league/etc. cap.
But MLB can’t merch dump UCLA (or whatever) caps, so it’ll never happen.
This is laughably lame.
I don’t get it.
There’s been lots of times I’ve said “I don’t like it” but this might be the first “I don’t get it”
Lol, MLB saw the Miami Heat city jerseys and decided to rip that concept right off.
You think these look bad, get ready for the cap advertisements. In addition to New Era already there
Don’t give MLB any more ideas. I’ll bet there thinking cap ad’s for the future.
We are getting the 2019 jerseys back he said with new design hat but I think tommorow they’ll probably release the jerseys and show it it think??
Um…what?
Here’s an idea– PUT THEM IN THE UNIFORMS THAT *I* DESIGNED AND POSTED ON UNI WATCH. Fuckers.
Please STOP THE BS!! it is out of control. How many freakin’ caps have been introduced this year, starting with the multiple spring training caps the players wear for just batting practice, for the actual exhibition game, for only in the locker room (I’m not sure if there are different player’s “gotta go do #1” and player’s gotta go do #2 cap). But for me, these stupid caps are just a tip of the iceberg. The real insult is the City Connect uniform. Specifically for me – Boston’s uni. What an insult – hey, let’s make more money off of injured, maimed, and/or killed innocent victims of a senseless marathon bombing.
For some reason the font reminds me of the 80’s gameshow on MTV called Remote Control…..
A classic.
Decades have passed, but I still find humor in the question category “Dead or Canadian?”
Can you imagine someone telling Bob Gibson, “Bob, we wear this jersey on Tuesday and we wear this jersey on Thursday road games and we wear this jersey on Friday home games, and, and, and …………
Kinda stupid? How about completely stupid.
A pece of trivia totally unrelated to the caps: in yesterday’s Twins-Cubs game, Minnesota’s starting lineup had the following numbers: 13, 30, 23, 64, 50, 82, 26, 8, 72, and their pitcher was number 49. If one of the two players in the 20s (23 Royce Lewis or 26 Max Kepler) had a number in the 90s (not unthinkable, these days), the Twins would have had all ten decades of jersey numbers represented among the ten players in the game.
I don’t think that has ever happened before, and wonder if this game was the closest any team has ever come.
Next: night caps by New Era to be worn by the players when they go to sleep. Gotta have them all…
I like this better than other things they’ve done for this promotion, especially since it’s so small. I don’t mind that that the numbers might not be able to be seen if the purpose is to have a consistent feature across the league. In fact, I see it as a bonus!
Lazy ass trash. Pandering to get fans that already need a second mortgage to buy “Authentic” apparel spend even more money.