BOSTON – If the Yankees added an alternate road jersey, Giancarlo Stanton is certain that the world wouldn’t spin off its axis.
“Yes, I would be a fan,’’ Stanton said of that change.
In discussing the possibility of a third Yankee uniform top with certain of his teammates, Stanton said, “a lot of people would be OK with it for sure.’’
The subject of adopting an alternate road jersey, thus joining the rest of modern MLB, is something Yankees players have talked about frequently in recent years, said Stanton.
“There’s a lot of tradition here - the most iconic jersey there is in sports,’’ said Stanton. “But that doesn’t mean that every once in the while you can’t change something up.
On Wednesday, a report in The Athletic stated that “Yankees players had pitched’’ to upper management the idea of wearing their solid navy-blue batting practice jerseys – with New York on the front – during an occasional road series.
“It’s always in our locker but we don’t wear them (in games). But why not?’’ said Stanton.
“It’s not like we sat in a room and designed it ourselves. It’s here,’’ Stanton said of the BP jerseys, worn regularly during spring training exhibition games.
But with very few exceptions, the Yankees have stuck to their classic pinstriped uniforms at home and versions of gray road jerseys with “New York’’ in block lettering.
“I think we’ll always wear the pinstripes at home. I don’t think that’ll change,’’ said Yankees captain Aaron Judge.
But, “we changed our road jersey’’ in 2024, eliminating the white outline around “New York’’ for an old-style look, similar to those worn during the 2021 “Field of Dreams’’ game.
After that, Judge and some influential teammates suggested that it ought to be the look of their primary road uniform.
“If it happens, it happens,’’ Judge said of wearing an alternate road jersey.
Well, last year, a 50-year-old Yankees facial hair policy was rescinded by managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner, citing the need to adjust to players' preferences.
“I’m all about tradition. But we’ve got a patch on our sleeves,’’ said Judge, referencing the Starr Insurance advertising patch worn on all Yankees jerseys since July 2023.
“I don’t know if anything on that is imminent anyway,’’ Yanks manager Aaron Boone said of an alternate road jersey, though “it’s something we’ve kind of talked about loosely for the last couple of years.’’
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“That one’s touchy because I don’t like a lot of those City Connects,’’ Stanton said of designs that can be, well, unique to say the least.
Since it’s the Yankees, “We can’t do one that doesn’t hit, that’s for sure,’’ but the alternate road top would be “the same jersey, different color,’’ and inherently less controversial.
“Whatever you guys write and we get a positive enough reaction,’’ Stanton said with a wry smile.