Some of the game's biggest stars spoke to GabeLacques about their feelings on moving away from a decades-long tradition of wearing their own team's threads at the AllStarGame.
USA TODAY Sports' Bob Nightengale shares his thoughts on whether or not the Los Angeles Angels will trade Shohei Ohtani now that injuries are mounting on the team.SEATTLE — For decades, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game was a visual feast: Thirty uniforms on one field, touching nooks and crannies of the color palette, from cream to white to baby blues.
Yet perhaps something will be lost to the eye when players line up for the anthem before tonight’s 93rd All-Star Game."That's how I remember it as a kid," Devin Williams, the Milwaukee Brewers' closer, tells USA TODAY Sports."When you take your uniform away, it kind of takes away from the identity. Who you are, who you play for. You spend all year, for me, playing for the Brewers. And I'm representing the Brewers.
"I like wearing the Blue Jays," says Toronto closer Jordan Romano, a Canadian citizen."I like representing the city, the country and being Canadian, it’s pretty special to me.
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