The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter ... this year’s Hope-O-Meter and some very bad hats. I’m Levi Weaver, here with Ken Rosenthal. Welcome to The Windup!

A unique, new line of MLB hats for fans displays a team’s uniform logo with its hat logo superimposed on top of it in the center. The mishmash of letters created a different word altogether ...

Overnight, sports apparel brand New Era has become the butt of online jokes for their newly released MLB Overlap 59FIFTY hat collection. Not only are the new hats nonsensical, but at least one ...

New Era's new MLB Overlap hats for 2025 -- in which they put the logos of teams over the names of said teams -- have become a source of a lot of humor for baseball fans everywhere. It's not just ...

New Era's design for the "Overlap" hats features a team logo over the team city or nickname spelled out. (Credit: New Era) For the second year in a row, a Major League Baseball apparel controversy ...

Sep 29, 2024; Anaheim, California, USA; A Texas Rangers fan shows a sign board after a MLB game between the Los ... freshly released New Era "Overlap" hat collection Monday. The concept behind ...

The new collection of MLB hats from New Era has caused quite a stir online. The Texas Rangers have already removed their cap from the online team store, and more teams have followed suit.

Almost all MLB teams are one with their baseball cap insignia, and New Era, the league's official cap provider, attempted to work from that to develop a new line of fashionable hats for the ...