\u201cA million percent,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst, do no harm. Protect the brand at all costs \u2014 is a really important thing. They\u2019re going to look like the Yankees. When this happens, there will be nothing strange about any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees are the only MLB team without an alternate jersey. They wear only their iconic white and pinstripes at home and grays on the road. They are one of two teams without a City Connect jersey. The Athletics, who don\u2019t have a home city, also don\u2019t have one.<\/p>\n
News of the possibility of the Yankees wearing alternate jerseys riled up the fan base, which seemed split between upholding tradition and modernizing the organization. For what it\u2019s worth, players like the jerseys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the alternates are cool,\u201d second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s no big deal which uniforms we wear. When I was in Miami, wearing the teal pinstripes was a big deal. But I\u2019m in New York. It\u2019s pinstripes, and we wear whatever else on the road. The road never really bothered me, or I\u2019ve never thought about, \u2018Oh, we need to change,\u2019 or anything. It\u2019s whatever. If they don\u2019t do it, it\u2019s fine with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re the same jersey, just a different color,\u201d catcher J.C. Escarra said. \u201cI know there\u2019s been talk about other designs<\/a> and stuff, but I feel like that\u2019s the cleanest, original version of it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Ben Rice circles the bases in spring training while wearing what could become the Yankees\u2019 first alternate jersey. (Chris Coduto \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n The Yankees have shown a willingness to change in recent years under owner Hal Steinbrenner, who will decide<\/a> whether the club adopts the alternate jerseys.\u00a0The team eliminated its nearly 50-year-old policy prohibiting facial hair in 2024. It added advertising to its uniform for the first time in 2023.<\/p>\n Fans clutching their pearls over an alternate jersey need to get with reality, said Paul Lukas, who ran Uni Watch, a website that featured stories about sports uniforms.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Yankees long ago lost whatever claim they may have once had for their uniforms being more special or old school or sacrosanct or sacred, or whatever term you want to use, than any other teams,\u201d Lukas said. \u201cThey\u2019re just part of the Nike-MLB advertising machine. They\u2019re just another cog in that machine. So, alternate jerseys? Sure, why not. I\u2019m sure it will be awful, because most of the alternate jerseys in the league are awful. But I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything more tragic about the Yankees doing it than any other team.\u201d<\/p>\n But for a long time, alternate jerseys seemed impossible for the Yankees. In 2005, late owner George Steinbrenner said they would never happen under his watch.<\/p>\n \u201cI will not go to alternate uniforms,\u201d Steinbrenner said at the time via spokesman Howard Rubenstein, according to The Associated Press. \u201cThe pinstripes represent a great Yankee tradition, and we will maintain that.\u201d<\/p>\n These Yankees alternates are essentially the inverse of their current road grays. They feature \u201cNew York\u201d across the chest, and the letters and numbers are gray with white trim. They also have stitched on their sleeves the Starr Insurance logo that\u2019s on the Yankees\u2019 home and road jerseys.<\/p>\n The Yankees already wear them during spring training, and MLB approved them for in-game use before the 2025 season. They\u2019re brought on road trips to be worn during batting practice, though players seldom do so, instead opting for hoodies or T-shirts. Gamers can use them in the video game MLB The Show 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s not a whole lot that you should do with the Yankees,\u201d Radom said. \u201cThe through line that connects Babe Ruth to (Joe) DiMaggio and (Mickey) Mantle, all the way to (Derek) Jeter and (Aaron) Judge is something that you should respect. As a designer, I would respect it, and embrace it.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777292596_693_GettyImages-2268206161-scaled.jpg\")
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