Earlier this year we looked at the evolution of the Buffalo Bison’s logos, and now they released their new uniform set. The Bisons Mets-ified their uniforms and now its out with the Mets and in with the Blue Jays. Here are some pictures of their home, away and alternate uniforms from their twitter feed:

I am big fan of these uniforms mainly because I have a soft spot for these classic look.

The red uniforms have a nice connection to the Blue Jays with the type face on on the back. The front of the uniform is a little odd, the numbers may have to be larger. The other benefit of these uniforms is if the Blue Jays/Bisons connection doesn’t work out the first two uniforms, the best ones in the set can still stick around.

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The Reds announced this weekend that they will have a new, red alternate jersey for the 2013 season that reads “Los Rojos” across the front:

I’ve gone on record on this site before, and I will continue to, in support of jerseys that do more than just slap “los” in front of the name but try to do something more. This jersey does that. The Reds don’t have any home uniforms that have the team name going across the front, and no uniforms that have a script across the front. Also, rather than doing the lame thing saying “Los Reds” they at least translated the name.

My only complaint was the inconsistent shadowing. I would prefer no shadow at all, but if there will be shadow, it needs to be on every word. The lack of shadow on the word “Los” looks like it is just a computer error as this website has a picture of the actual uniform, with consistent shadows.

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Before 2008, the Bisons were an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians and donned this look:

In my personal opinion, it was creepy. I did enjoy how the “Bisons” script looked like that old style of post card, however it didn’t make up for how much is going on with this logo (probably would have been better without the sand and the plate)

Then the Mets came to town, and the logo updated:

I loved this logo. It incorporated elements of the Mets while making uniquely Buffalo. Also, being a Mets team, there was some bias on my part. However, Buffalo is now a Toronto team, so this logo had to go:

Good job Buffalo! This new logo brings back the “classic” Buffalo baseball player, but they did a good job not making him look creepy. With the addition of the circular baseball motif, this logo set as the opportunity to be a classy logo and a classy uniform set.  This logo is also a nice shout-out to old primary logo, seen below (ignore the additional sliding buster)

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It’s November! Teams are starting to roll out their new designs for next year and new patches, especially teams that want to get merchandise into stores by Black Friday.

The first major uniform change of the year came from Houston, and the first special patch for next year (with the exception of the 2013 All-Star Game Patch) comes from the Rockies, who will be celebrating their 20th anniversary:

I like it. It’s simple, and you know exactly what it is celebrating and for whom.

I am also a fan when the Rockies embrace the purple. There is practically no purple in the major leagues, which makes Colorado unique. The shape of the patch is a little different. Diamonds are common for baseball (for obvious reasons) but I don’t recall seeing a lot of diamond style patches recently. For example, the primary Orioles logo for a while was the script Orioles in a diamond, but they haven’t used that in a few years.

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The worst kept secret, because it hasn’t been a secret, is the removal of the black uniforms from the Mets rotation in 2013. In 2012, the Mets wore the black uniforms more as a throwback than anything else, and I don’t think they wore them more than 2, maybe 3 times. They fully removed the black road uniforms. The word on the street has been that the Mets would be replacing the black uniforms with the very popular royal blue Los Mets uniform.

Then yesterday there were these two tweets from the Mets Police Twitter Feed. Mets Police said before hand these were both rumors.

I agree with the Mets Police statement though, if the Mets do release two uniforms that are both royal blue, one would have orange writing (with a white outline) and the other one would have white writing (with an orange outline).

I do wonder if one of these uniforms will be a road uni.

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The Brewers joined in with the Cards a few weeks ago to roll back their uniforms as well. I’m a big fan of the No Name On Back here:

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The Cards wore two 82 uniforms when they honored their past, and this one was the better one. The Home Whites looked good and all, but it is something special, something unique to the Cards of the 80′s to see them in their blues:

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It was a busy weekend for the Cards (two weekends ago) where they wore two different throwbacks to honor the 1982 World Series. Here is the home white pullover, looks nice:

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The Padres have had a long history of questionable jerseys. Long time readers of this site know that I have been a fan of their recent changes, mainly because the uniforms went from awful to average. However their 1989 uniforms, in my opinion at least, are awesome. They utilize several underrepresented colors across the uniform board, especially in baseball:

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I’m a little backed up here, and I know you all know this is old news but hey, its worth covering again. Last week when the Mets rolled into San Diego, the Padres were rolling back the clock to 1989, and the Mets joined into with their road pullovers with the plain New York script (almost Yankee-esque), and Mets race stripes. In normal MLB, Mets world order, you buy them online already:

Captain Kirk wasn’t even on the team when they wore these! Anyway, the jersey looks nice, clean and accurate. Well done Mets! It also brings the Mets count of new jerseys up to 8 (New Home, Alt, Away, BP, AS BP, AS, LosMets, 89).

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