It's all about Nike benefitting Nike. They wanted to do these more athletic costumes, as though playing baseball was like working out. Everything was sacrificed for lighter looks, so less stitching, more iron on, narrower collar and front, which caused the MLB logo to drop, the names to shrink and numbers to fall on the back, and the odd breaks across the buttons on the front. The Mets uni splits the e in half instead of breaking between the M and e. They will fix the pants--nobody buys them. The shame of it nobody recognized that Major League baseball unis are supposed to be prominent, stitched, a little opulent, a little over the top -- that's one of the things that makes baseball unique.