MLB: Power ranking the best uniforms for 2015
By Will Osgood
11. Pittsburgh Pirates
A few of the next teams are alternate-happy squads. The Pittsburgh Pirates are about as guilty as any team in baseball. They wear their black top home and away at least 75 percent of the time, but that’s because, like many other teams, they allow their starting pitcher to select the jersey and many prefer the black top.
Gerrit Cole, however, is the exception. He always wears the white or gray top, except for Sunday home games—when every Pirates pitcher is rid of the choice and must wear the throwback no-button jersey with old school pants.
They were wearing these on Sunday Night Baseball when they had their ridiculous nine-run seventh inning to overcome a 5-3 deficit and sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The reality is all four jerseys the Pirates have at their discretion are amazing. It would be nice to see them sport the white and gray tops more often, because both are as good as they get for modern jerseys. But the black tops with the Old English P—the same logo on the Pirates’ straight black cap—also look good.
It’s hard to be critical. Baseball is a game of superstition. If pitchers feel the black tops are their lucky jersey, who am I to judge? But for rankings purposes they do get bumped down a notch for their overuse of them.
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