Late last month, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jeff Hoffman suggested that the team change their headgear.

Scuffling in the waning days of the regular season, the club’s closer floated the idea of the squad returning to the retro white-panel hats they wore during Hall of Fame weekend earlier this summer. The ballcaps resemble the ones the Jays wore 1992 and ’93, when the team won back-to-back World Series.

“Hoff wanted to just have a different feel of what we were wearing,” manager John Schneider said . “And what we were doing.”

“I caught wind that we had them available and they were one of our options and I thought it was crazy that we hadn’t explored them,” Hoffman said in an interview on the Rogers Centre field during last Sunday’s post-clinch celebrations . “We have a couple of diff

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