Major League Baseball has a new official sock provider in Stance, so we knew we would see Rays players in new socks and stirrups this season. But what we didn’t expect is what happened on opening day.
According to Paul Lukas of ESPN and Uni-Watch, there was supposed to be consistency among players when they wore their short pants. That is, if more than one player had their socks exposed, they would be wearing the same design.
That is not what happened with the Rays on opening day.
First there was Chris Archer, who was not wearing his standard striped stirrups, but instead went with plain navy socks (that is the Stance logo on the front and the MLB logo on the back, so not completely plain.