Since 2005, MLB has donated all the World Series merchandise of the losing team to developing nations around the world as part of the World Vision charity. This year is different.

MLB will not be donating Cleveland Indians merchandise overseas, and instead, it will collect the gear from retailers to be destroyed.

Some have speculated that this had something to do with the controversy around the Indians’ “Chief Wahoo” logo — a racist caricature of a Native American. According to a report from The Huffington Post, that was not the reasoning. MLB would have made the same decision had the Indians won the World Series.

Via the Huffington Post:

“In past years we have used World Vision, but we have moved our policy to destroying the merchandise,” MLB’s Matt Bourne told HuffPost. “The reason is to protect the team from inaccurate merchandise being available or visible in the general marketplace.”

Donating new gear to developing nations also has a negative effect on local retailers, according to the report.