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3/02/2026 10:37 am  #1


World Baseball Classic by Sky




I'm so excited for the World Baseball Classic. I've been looking forward to it for months. What I don't love, however, are the boring templated jerseys that every team except Japan is wearing. I thought 2023 was great, allowing every team to have a special, distinct look. So, here's my take on international baseball! Each team will have two jerseys, a home white and road look that will use non-white pants, but can be a colored top. My goal was to blend each team's history with a modern, iconic look. With one exception, teams use the same language they currently use for their country, so Japan will say "Japan" while Czechia will say "Česko". Please enjoy!


POOL A
CANADA
COLOMBIA
CUBA
PANAMA
PUERTO RICO


POOL B
BRAZIL
GREAT BRITAIN
ITALY
MEXICO
UNITED STATES

POOL C

AUSTRALIA
CZECHIA
JAPAN
SOUTH KOREA
CHINESE TAIPEI (TAIWAN)

POOL D

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
ISRAEL
NETHERLANDS
NICARAGUA
VENEZUELA

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CHINA
SPAIN
GERMANY
SOUTH AFRICA


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3/02/2026 10:52 am  #2


Re: World Baseball Classic by Sky

PUERTO RICO




Puerto Rico's 2023 look, while certainly distinctive, was not the right direction for the team in my opinion. I've returned to the different-color sleeves look from 2017, where the team made a miraculous run all the way to the WBC finals before losing to the US. I kept the team's logos and wordmarks the same, as I think they make for a unique look that the team can own. The road uniform is a red shirt with blue sleeves, as opposed to the ugly dark gray every team had in 2017. As the first of many, many red and blue teams, it was important to me that Puerto Rico stand out as one of the preeminent teams of international baseball. 



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3/02/2026 11:36 am  #3


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I like Puerto Rico, the different colored sleeves is a good look for them (though I personally feel a team should just do a vest then, but... that's not what they do anyway).

Question I have: will the cap be the same for both looks, or will teams have the potential for multiple caps?



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3/02/2026 4:06 pm  #4


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Dan O'Mac wrote:

I like Puerto Rico, the different colored sleeves is a good look for them (though I personally feel a team should just do a vest then, but... that's not what they do anyway).

Question I have: will the cap be the same for both looks, or will teams have the potential for multiple caps?

Some teams will have multiple caps, but not many. One that comes to mind is the Netherlands.



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3/02/2026 11:11 pm  #5


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hell yeah, another sky project! I'm excited to see you take on some more baseball. definitely a fan of this first offering; like dan said, the contrasting sleeves look great and feel very puerto rico to me. one quabble (and I expect this may come up often) is that I don't particularly like the gray pants on the road; I can sort of see why you'd want to keep that traditional-ish element, but I imagine the set would look a lot sharper with white pants. mostly just a personal preference thing tho. can't wait to see who's next!

 

3/03/2026 11:14 am  #6


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ItDoesntMatter wrote:

hell yeah, another sky project! I'm excited to see you take on some more baseball. definitely a fan of this first offering; like dan said, the contrasting sleeves look great and feel very puerto rico to me. one quabble (and I expect this may come up often) is that I don't particularly like the gray pants on the road; I can sort of see why you'd want to keep that traditional-ish element, but I imagine the set would look a lot sharper with white pants. mostly just a personal preference thing tho. can't wait to see who's next!

Glad you like PR! I totally understand where you're coming from with the gray pants, and honestly, looking back on it, with every team's home jersey being all-white, I could've gone for white pants on the road, but I've already exported all the images and frankly I don't feel like re-exporting them all. You could easily imagine that either pants set would be allowed with the road jersey. 

Next team will be up soon!



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3/03/2026 11:22 am  #7


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UNITED STATES



The United States' WBC look has always been a big letdown to me. A USA wordmark with a gimmicky S that looks like a strip of bacon, an ugly cap logo featuring silver that's nowhere else on the set, it all just feels so amateur for the country that literally invented baseball. In my opinion, the USA should be sticking to as traditional a look as possible; leave the more outlandish ideas for countries that don't have as rich and as defined of a baseball aesthetic as the US does. To that end, my USA set is simple: a large block USA across the chest, classic red and navy striping on the sleeves and pants, and a block US interlock inspired by the cap of the 1934 all-star tour of Japan. 



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3/03/2026 8:05 pm  #8


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Always a fan of a new Sky series! 

I think PR is a solid look, I do appreciate that you focused on them first among the many red-blue teams. I'll echo the gray pants concern but overall I think it's a strong look. I'm personally not a huge fan of the number system that matches the wordmark but I get the history of it and why it makes sense.

U.S.A.! So I get where you're going with this but I do have some quibbles. I think it's almost too plain/simple but I can get behind what you're trying to accomplish here. I like the big USA across the chest but that particular arch/skew doesn't do it for me. I think a more classically arched text that was less vertically tall would feel better imo. I also feel like the stroke on the numbers is thicker than the wordmark and I dislike that. I'd really like to see this set with a different serif set, for some reason the current isn't doing it for me. I think the cap looks great. I worry that it's too similar to PR but also there's only so many cap designs to go around. Part of the disconnect for me is the cap logo being flat while the rest of the set has thick strokes. Overall I think the set works but could really stand out with some minor tweaks.

Just some initial thoughts from a mostly non-baseball guy. Stoked for this series!!



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3/04/2026 11:34 am  #9


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Steelman wrote:

Always a fan of a new Sky series! 

I think PR is a solid look, I do appreciate that you focused on them first among the many red-blue teams. I'll echo the gray pants concern but overall I think it's a strong look. I'm personally not a huge fan of the number system that matches the wordmark but I get the history of it and why it makes sense.

U.S.A.! So I get where you're going with this but I do have some quibbles. I think it's almost too plain/simple but I can get behind what you're trying to accomplish here. I like the big USA across the chest but that particular arch/skew doesn't do it for me. I think a more classically arched text that was less vertically tall would feel better imo. I also feel like the stroke on the numbers is thicker than the wordmark and I dislike that. I'd really like to see this set with a different serif set, for some reason the current isn't doing it for me. I think the cap looks great. I worry that it's too similar to PR but also there's only so many cap designs to go around. Part of the disconnect for me is the cap logo being flat while the rest of the set has thick strokes. Overall I think the set works but could really stand out with some minor tweaks.

Just some initial thoughts from a mostly non-baseball guy. Stoked for this series!!

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like PR and the US. I totally get what you're saying about the text and on some reflection I think I do agree. I'm gonna do an updated US set with a different font. The stroke shouldn't be a different size but it's possible that happened accidentally with resizing, etc. I'll post the next team soon!



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3/04/2026 11:42 am  #10


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JAPAN



This Samurai Japan set is the same as seen in my NPB redesign series, just sans the alt. To repeat what I said there, I think between navy/gray, red, and gold, Japan just has one too many colors that all compete with each other for attention. In my opinion, they peaked aesthetically in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, with minimal red, navy pinstripes, and gold sleeve and collar striping that really adds to the scheme. I've tweaked the shades of their colors for a more pleasing balance, replaced the diamond pinstripes with traditional ones, and traded the "ghosted" lettering on the away with white. 



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