MLB debut players will have special patches on jerseys

NEW YORK — Players making their massive league debuts can be particularly marked this season.

Major League Baseball introduced earlier than Thursday’s openers that gamers making their first appearances will put on debut patches on their jerseys. The patch will seem on totally different locations of a sleeve, relying on the crew and any anniversary of sponsor patches.

After a participant seems in his first recreation, the patch can be authenticated and positioned on a Topps baseball card as a part of an settlement reached by MLB and the business wing of the gamers’ affiliation with Fanatics Collectibles, a division of Fanatics that acquired the buying and selling card firm Topps final yr.

One card with the patch can be out there for every participant.