Power ranking all 30 MLB uniforms

10. Oakland Athletics

The A’s have had some incredible uniforms over the years thanks to Charlie Finley’s “creative” streak. From all yellow uniforms, to vests, green tops, white tops and multiple variations (always with signature white cleats, there is no shortage of great threads coming out of Oakland. Finley was the first owner in the 1960s to create alternate uniforms for his team. Today some teams trot out four or five uniform combinations in a given year, but at the time, teams only wore home and away uniforms with very little character.

Oakland currently wears creatively subdued home and away jerseys. Their home threads feature a script “Athletics” across the chest, while the gray road jerseys swap that for “Oakland.” They are the only team in the league using green and yellow as their primary colors, and most players continue to wear the iconic white cleats. Every young baseball player went through a phase in their teen years where they were absolutely begging their parents for a pair of flashy, white spikes. Thank the A’s for that. The green and yellow are a unique combination in a league where most of the teams feature some variation of red, white or blue.

Everyone sleeps on the A’s because of how lousy their stadium is and their small-market status, but no one should be sleeping on their uniforms. Adding a green A’s hat to the rotation should be on every die-hard MLB fan’s to-do list. Now, if Oakland could just figure out its stadium situation, they’d really be cooking with gas. The long history of the A’s in Oakland must be preserved, and same goes for these uniforms.