MLB: Power ranking the best uniforms for 2015
By Will Osgood
19. Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays, with their odd collection of dark, or navy, blue and Carolina/baby blue could easily have gone either way on this list, up or down, from here.
Personally, I like the combination and the way everything works together. It gives kind of a cute element to an otherwise mean angle. The old Devil Rays uniforms were, of course, a relative nightmare, so anything the Rays did promised to be an upgrade.
Again, these colors just work, in part because they made the Ray element cool due to its ferocity. In fact, logo-wise it seems to be the perfect compromise of cool and fierce, and surprisingly the color scheme doesn’t hurt it.
When the Rays elect to wear their dark alternate tops, it perfectly complements the gray colored pants they sport on the road. At home, they also have a light Carolina/light blue top which they’ll couple with a dark hat and light blue bill. Though they appear to have disregarded it recently.
Normally I’m not wild about multiple dark alternates, but in Tampa Bay it works. Maybe it’s the odd environment at Tropicana Field with the weird lighting, but the light blue tops just sparkle and look fabulous.
And even the sparkling white home uniforms you could say the same about. The all-gray road unis too. None of them seem like they should work, but then watching the Rays on television, they look great. However they do make the cardinal error of using “Rays,” in a cursive type font, rather than spelling out “Tampa Bay”.
One other suggestion I might make for the road unis in the future would be to go with the same TB logo on their caps.
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