If a screencap from the brand new MLB The Present 24 online game is any indicator, the Los Angeles Angels will introduce a brand new throwback uniform as an alternate choice for this 2024 season. This confirms an earlier report that circulated again in January.
The screencap exhibits the brand new throwback choice as an “Alternate 2” uniform for the Los Angeles Angels on their pre-game uniform choose display. Sometimes, if an previous uniform was provided as a throwback “Turn Back the Clock” choice on this sport, it could show it as “1972 HOME” or one thing comparable. The absence of the 12 months and the truth that it’s referred to particularly as “ALTERNATE 2” strongly suggests this can be a present uniform for the 2024 season.
Whereas the sooner reviews confirmed this as a pullover uniform, MLB The Present 24 presents it as a full button-up jersey. This will not be the case, nevertheless, as MLB: The Present video video games all the time show jerseys as button-ups no matter their real-life button standing.
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A further pair of screenshots under present the State of California patch on the sleeve and the type of the participant’s title and quantity — additionally word the Angels’ new MLB emblem colourway of red-white-blue (the blue and crimson have been swapped round for ’24) is on show.
A ballcap available for sale at the MLB official online shop additionally exhibits the throwback-style cap seen within the above screencaps; this cover is designated as an Alternate On-Subject cap fairly than any reference being made that it’s part of MLB’s throwback line of “Cooperstown Collection” caps. Once more, simply one other suggestion that this can be a present cap to be worn in 2024.
The Angels began carrying this uniform type once they have been nonetheless often called the California Angels in 1973 (although the cap debuted one season earlier). This explicit design was worn till the tip of the 1985 season when the membership swapped out the State of California sleeve patch with their primary logo showing the halo-A on a baseball. The pullover was transformed to a button-up jersey (with the identical design) in 1989 and continued to be worn till 1993, when the Angels opted for a total makeover with a throwback to their look from the Nineteen Sixties.
There’s no phrase on when the Angels will unveil the brand new look, however the membership does have a Throwback Week from July 25 to August 1 listed on its promotional schedule.
The Angels have thrown back to this look several times in recent years. Most lately, they wore the button-up model of this uniform for 2 video games in July 2023. They final wore the pullover model from August 16-17, 2019.
This isn’t the one change the Los Angeles Angels are making to their uniforms in 2024; the membership additionally performed round with the colors and shading on their jersey numbers and the trim round their sleeves and collars. In our post here, there is much more information on the changes in the Angels uniform and the rest of what’s new in baseball uniforms for 2024.
