Shrinkflation and see-through pants: MLB’s uniform debacle is a sheer farce

Baseball entrusted the manufacturing of their new uniforms with Fanatics, a company whose dismal reputation for quality embodies the less-for-more worst of late-stage capitalism

Back in the '90s there was this executive with the New York Yankees - the assistant to the traveling secretary, if memory serves - who was a big believer in the power of the breathable uniform. But it's unlikely even George Costanza would have cottoned to baseball's latest wardrobe change.

Ahead of the upcoming season, Major League Baseball announced plans to update the playing uniforms for all 30 clubs. The rollout has gone about as well as the league's other attempts to breathe fresh life into America's stodgy old pastime in recent years. What's more, it's almost too fitting that the poster boy for this problem is the game's biggest draw.