Blue Jays tease "new blue" jerseys on social media

Jan 13 2020, 8:14 pm

Back in December, the Toronto Blue Jays announced their biggest offseason acquisitionĀ ā€” the addition of Hyun-Jin Ryu to a four-year, $80 million contract. Now the team is making another announcement, but this one is likely to be of the “new threads” variety.

Earlier today, several Toronto media members received mysterious packages from the Blue Jays, indicating a special unveiling later this weekend at the team’s Winter Fest event January 18 and 19.

MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson was one of the first to tweet out an image with a baseball that said: “New threads coming soon.”

Blue Jays play-by-play voice Ben Wagner also received the same nondescript package from the club, annotated with the note: #NEWBLUE.

And then the Blue Jays released this video shortly thereafter, set to Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on.”

This all points towards a potential announcement about the club resurrecting their beloved powder blue uniforms from the Blue Jays’ uniform vault. The focus on the light blue in this promotional material hints towards a brand new uniform addition for the 2020 season.

What isn’t known at this point is whether the club is planning on resurrecting the powder blue pullover uniforms altogether, revamping and updating the old uniform set (like they did during the uniform refresh of 2011), or whether this involves multiple uniform changes.

The Blue Jays’ uniforms have remained unchanged since November 2011, when they unveiled the latest uniform redesign. Aside from the addition of a white panel cap, the odd Canada Day uniform, and the Players’ Weekend uniforms, it’s been a decade since the Blue Jays last made a significant change to their uniform set.

With an official announcement expected at Rogers Centre this weekend, speculation has run rampant on social media.

All will be revealed later this weekend, but if this unveiling has anything to do with a new powder blue uniform for the Blue Jays, this announcement will make a lot of fans happy.

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