Fans hoping the Padres will bring back brown uniforms on a full-time basis will have to keep hoping.

Executive Chairman Ron Fowler, asked Tuesday about serious alterations in the near future, said “it’ll probably be the 2020 season before we see anything.” The owner said the team has commissioned a “major firm” to conduct a research study of quantitative data.

“We’re going to show people examples of uniforms we think might make sense, and we have representatives of the brown,” Fowler said in an interview on The Mighty 1090. “...I’m not a fan of, as Tony Gwynn used to say, the ‘baby poop’ brown-and-yellow uniforms. I think there’s some brown that is very, very classy, and we’ll see what the market tells us.”

The Padres have reintegrated brown, a nod to their most colorful era, in each of the past two seasons, but only in a limited capacity; the team wears brown-and-yellow “fauxbacks” for Friday home games.


Club officials contemplated brown and yellow as the primary home colors for the 2016 season, before settling on a white uniform aligning with that year’s All-Star Game in San Diego. The Padres further streamlined their home look in 2017, and have been widely panned for a lack of creativity.

Navy blue will continue to be the club’s main color in 2018.

“It’s two years away before we can do anything with the processes you have to go through with baseball,” Fowler said.

Under Armour will replace Majestic Athletic as the supplier of Major League Baseball uniforms in 2019, when the Padres could look to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their first season. A broader shift in color scheme, however, will have to wait a bit longer.


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