The team I grew up geographically closest to made some upgrades to their uniform set this winter, and it looks good. Over the last 6 years or so, the Orioles made two major changes to their uniform set. First, they added a Black alternate uniform to the set. This color works for the Orioles (unlike the Mets, or a lot of other teams that try to do this) because the Oriole Bird itself is Black and Orange (foreshadowing for later). The more recent change was to change the name on the away uniform from “Orioles” to “Baltimore”. Baltimore is a city with a lot of pride, and generally, away uniforms should have the city name on the front.

The Orioles made some minor changes to the uniform for 2012 by correcting the some fonts, like “Baltimore”, but they really made three, huge changes to the uniform set. First they added in a new alternate uniform:

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So now the Orioles have uniforms that match the colors of the Oriole bird. The downside to these uniforms is they are not as unique as you would have guessed. The Giants have an orange alternate and the new Miami Marlins do as well.

The next two major changes can be seen on the same image:

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The Orioles are going back to a cartoon bird (new design) which has always been a fan favorite. They are also going to a pinwheel style hat for home games, which is nice, unusual and generally awesome. To end this tour of the 2012 Orioles Uniform, here’s the new sleeve badge:

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Up Next: The 2012 Blue Jays Uniforms which we’ll take a look at on Thursday.

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The Seattle Mariners made some small changes to their uniforms this season as the celebrate their 35th anniversary in Seattle. Last season, they brought back their teal uniforms as an alternate, which was a welcomed addition as it was an alternate uniform that wasn’t more of the same (like every team wearing black as an alternate).

This season they decided to take it a step farther by adding a teal hat:

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This hat is a much needed upgrade to a Seattle Uniform that already looks pretty good. Having a brim match an alternate jersey isn’t always a nice touch, but here it really works as the teal is the focal point of the jersey anyway.

Seattle also decided to go with a nice, simple classic 35th Anniversary patch as well:

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We’ll take a look at the Baltimore Orioles Uniform Change Tomorrow!

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It’s early in the offseason, but already 4 teams have announced uniform changes for next year, 2012, and they all look good, and for some teams they are major upgrades from what the team was wearing before.

We already took a look at what the Mets have done, and it was great. They went back to their 60′s look with a really clean uniform that looks classy.

Two of other teams with uniform changes went the same route. The Orioles also took the clocks back by bringing the cartoon bird back to their hats as a primary logo. The Blue Jays completely turned the clock back and their new uniforms and logo look really nice, especially to what they used to look like.

Finally the Marlins probably had the most dramatic change to their uniforms as they changed their name to the Miami Marlins, brought in totally new uniforms and colors to help mark their new stadium.

All of these teams will get a look at in their own article, but after a lot of joke uniforms in the league, a lot of bad looking alternate uniforms or softball style uniforms, its nice to see 4 teams majorly upgrade what they have and bring back the classic look to baseball (maybe not classic for the Marlins). When I think about baseball, I think about tradition and uniforms on the field play a big role in that.

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Baseball teams have started to roll out their new uniforms and it brings me great joy to write about the New York Mets, who made a few changes to their uniform set, and they are really good.

As you know, the Mets are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, thus have decided to retro their uniforms by removing the drop shadow. The drop shadow was the black shadow behind the word “Mets” and the name and numbers on the back of jersey. No surprise, with the drop shadow removed, the Jerseys look soooooo much cleaner.

Home White

Road Gray

Alternate Pinstripe

Alternate Black

They Mets also will have a new Batting Practice Hat and Jersey. There is no pic on the Jersey yet, but it will be, according to rumors so take with a grain of salt, solid blue with an orange ring at the end of the sleeves. Nice.

My favorite part of the Mets set is the new patch. They did a really good job making a clean looking patch with meaning that didn’t repeat the disaster in 2009. Also on the Road and Home White Jersey, it is the only patch on the sleeve, which makes the whole jersey look nice. The only placement of the patch I’m not thrilled about is on the back of the hats.

Overall, great uniform set!

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