MLB The Show 22 Astrology Uniforms Part 2

The latest roster update for MLB The Show 2022 has dropped (still no Robinson Cano [or Ken Giles] to be found), and yet I haven’t made any progress in putting together my updated Fantasy Astrology custom teams. That’s because my laptop – on which I keep the meticulously detailed spreadsheets that I use for lineup creation – has fallen on hard times and needs repairs. But in the meantime, I can still present a video detailing my custom uniforms for signs in the second half of the zodiac wheel.

Check out the video about the first half signs here.

For Libra, I decided to break the mold and model their uniforms after a set of retro jerseys, rather than any current MLB team. This was partly because there are no current teams that use Libra’s characteristic magenta color scheme – the closest I could find in recent history was the light purple on the original Arizona Diamondbacks caps, but the game doesn’t even give you that as a preset option. I ended up putting my custom-created color on a copy of the jerseys worn by the Braves in the early-to-mid 1970’s, with the sleeves and shoulders a different color than the center. I also opted to have “Libra” adorn the front of both the home and away jerseys, rather than use their “Scales” nickname.

This was not the case for Scorpio, the fourth and final team to have their nickname appear on their away jerseys. While the “Scorpio Scorpions” does have shades of the format used by the Philadelphia Phillies, I’ve taken to calling them the “Stingers,” just to show a little variety. Their color scheme is basically the same as the current dark red used by the D-Backs, but I lightened it up just a little bit, since the black logo on their home caps was getting lost a bit. Scorpio is also the only team to feature vertical stripes going down the shoulders, which I thought was reminiscent of Arizona’s ill-fated attempt at a shoulder gradient in the late 2010’s.

While the Sagittarius uniform format was modeled after the Chicago Cubs, their purple color scheme was taken directly from the Colorado Rockies. Similar to the Cubbies, I put their logo on the upper-left breast of their home jerseys, surrounded by a cool-looking shield to stand out against the pinstripes, once again avoiding using their nickname (the “Archers,” although they could also have gone by “Centaurs,” according to Chani Nicholas in You Were Born For This). Since Sagittarius has the longest name of any sign, I put their full name in mostly lowercase letters on their away jerseys.

Capricorn has a similar situation as Sagittarius, as I used one team’s uniforms for the format (the Detroit Tigers), but with another team’s color scheme (the San Diego Padres). Actually, as with Scorpio, I lightened up the SDP brown, since the default version wasn’t popping as much as I’d like. Maybe I just need to adjust the brightness on my TV… Either way, the logo-instead-of-nickname format on the home jerseys allowed me to avoid the decision of whether to call them the Goats, or the more proper (and also more enigmatic) Sea Goats.

Neither of the last two signs have their nicknames on their home jerseys, but also neither do they have their logos. Instead, I opted to use the name of their sign for both, following the example I set with Virgo and Libra. In the case of Aquarius, they have a much too convoluted nickname to put on a jersey – and I also thought that seeing “Water Bearers” might cause some confusion, considering they play in the Air division. For their main color, I picked the sea-green of the Seattle Mariners, combining that with the light blue of the Miami Marlins, thereby utilizing elements both of MLB’s primary aquatic-themed franchises!

If you compare the Pisces uniforms in the above video with the ones I will eventually feature in MLB The Show 2022, you will see quite a difference between the two. For my first attempt, I created a custom light-blue that approaches the bright cyan that you might see in a selection of “web safe” colors. Looking back, this color was a little too abrasive, so this time around, I picked the powder blue used by the Tampa Bay Rays. The format of the home jerseys remained the same, which I modeled after the original Florida Marlins’ original pinstriped cutoffs. But I made a big change to the road uni’s, replacing the black jerseys over gray pants with an all-powder-blue ensemble. As the last sign of the zodiac, I afforded the Fish the special honor of being the only team to have different pants than the default away gray.

It will still likely be a while until I can start posting videos showcasing the new and improved uniforms, but in the meantime, this unexpected delay allows me to continue back through FABL history 24-team period.