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Worst MLB Uniforms

Fox Sports had an article today on the worst sports uniforms of all time.  While baseball uniforms tend to be of similar style and change little Fox has identified that 2 MLB teams made the cut.  The San Diego Padres camo alternate and the Chicago White Sox Bill Veeck-designed short pants of the late 70’s made the cut.  Fox’s list can be seen at  http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6214496

I made my own list of the 10 Worst Dressed Teams.

10. Washington Nats 1950 - The dull drab uniform of mostly grey and little navy and a plain block ‘W’ on the chest does not inspire anyting.  Bad teams with the most plain uniform of modern times.

9. Chicago White Sox 1982-1986 - Fox Sports gives the ChiSox short pants a bad rap but the ones that replaced them with the wrap around navy strip was worse.

8. Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1997 - A Devil Ray is not even a real animal so a logo/colour scheme was complelty up in the air - and they couldn’t make up their mind what colour a Devil Ray was so they chose a rainbow. Terrible.

7. Houston Astros - 1975-1982 - The Orange-Yellow-Red colour spectrum for a top was used as a home and road uniform.  Interesting but ugly.

6. San Diego Padres 1972-1973 - Lots to choose from here but while most people remember the brown Taco-bell style unifroms of the Ozzie Smith, Dave WInfield, Rollie Fingers days but the gold uniform with brown trim and gold sanitary hose were the worst from the Friars.

5. Cleveland Indians 1975-1977 - The fire-engine-red Indians uniform, tops and bottoms, may have been patriotic looking but they were still ugly. 

4. Baltimore Orioles 1971 - The orange/black/white scheme has been a staple on the Orioles since the 50’s but the orange pants, worn only in ‘71 were too much.

3. Pittsburgh Pirates 1977-1979 - The mix and match black/yellow pinstripe worn by The Family were short lived, the old style hat adopted by several teams in 1976 as a NL centennary was maintained until the mid 1990s and was a nice touch.

2. Brooklyn Dodgers 1944 - The Dodgers wore a baby-blue uniform this year, and this year only, they should never have took this design.  Terrible.

1. Kansas City Athletics 1963-1967 - These are the uniforms that started the change from traditional unifroms to tight fitting, colourful polyester uniforms of the 1970s and 1980s.  The all-gold with green trim and white shoes has been kept in Oakland to this day.  This is a crafy design by Charlie Finley who hoped to embarrass his players who were mired in the second divison and would give them their more dignified navy and red uniforms back when they started performing better, 4 WS in Oakland and many divison titles and the remnants of these monsters are still with the A’s.

honourable mention - 1997 Arizona Diamondbacks, 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers, 1942 Chicago Cubs away, most other teams in the 1970s and 1980s.  .

Royce Clayton?

Apparently JP has signed 36 year old SS Royce Clayton in an attempt to shore up the middle infield, thus allowing Aaron Hill to stay at 2B, his better defensive position. The deal is for 1 year at 1.5 million and is pending a physical. Let’s hope Clayton does a Rod Barajas and refuses this physical, and here’s why.

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Kei Igawa

  

Who is Kei Igawa and why did the New York Yankees bid $25 million for the rights to talk to him?

 

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Toronto Blue Jays Payroll

 

 

Earlier in the season, we wrote a story of the Blue Jays “Big Four”, and their salaries. With the signing of Frank Thomas, the big four now becomes the big five. Let’s look at the upcoming salary structure for these five players in 2007 & 2008.

 

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Building a team with a DD catering to PF

 

This is a continuation of my recent studies on Dependent Differential. In this study I will look at how a team’s success is affected by their DD in relation to BPF.

While going through the history of teams DD I found that many teams that played in a hitters park would always have a DD on hitting and a team playing in a pitchers park would always have a DD on pitching/fielding.

Mathematically, I changed my DD shown as a percentage into a ‘DD Factor’. DD was originally had a median or average of ‘0’ and ranged from 20.00 to –23.00. DD factor (DDF) makes 100 the median so teams above 100 are hitting dependant and teams below 100 are pitching dependent. I needed to do this so I could use the numbers to get meaningful results from calculations with PF. PF is represented in the same way as DDF.

 

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