The first update to PLUS v4.0 will be coming up soon.

Here’s a list of what’s included so far in PLUS v4.1 –

Oakland A’s
1. 1955 home and road

Chicago White Sox
1. 004g 1917 home and road
2. 1982 home and road
3. 1951 home

Minnesota Twins
1. 1959 home and road
2. 1967 home

Baltimore Orioles
1. 1951 St. Louis Browns home

San Francisco Giants
1. 1916 New York Giants home and road

Atlanta Braves
1. 1948 Boston Braves satin
2. 1953 Milwaukee Braves home

2009 All-Star Game
1. American and National leagues

Also included are equipment upgrades and other cosmetic changes to the Indians, Tigers, White Sox, Twins, Giants, and Diamondbacks.

Due to some technical problems with the blog I was unable to update or login, so the absence that no one noticed is now over… and with my return I’ve brought pictures!

In addition to the obvious updates for 2009, I’ve been rigorously working on updating most of last year’s uniforms to this year’s brand new template and texture design. For those of you that didn’t notice, the above uniforms feature that new template, and while it is by no means Earth shattering, I feel it does make some much-needed changes to my previous design that should finally make for the most authentic uniform experience that I am able to create with this game.

Aside from re-doing last year’s junk with my new junk, I have also been creating many brand new uniforms as well, mostly old throwback uniforms. Because of this and my work updating uniforms to the new textures, you’re guaranteed to see something new with your favorite team this coming season.

So as you can see above, I went a little concept crazy recently. These are not so much concepts as they are my guess as to what several teams would actually do if they decided to adopt a true road jersey.

A handful of teams don’t have their city’s name on their road grey jersey, however there may be a few less next year — The Orioles are set to place ‘Baltimore’ on their road jerseys and the Rays are rumored to join in as well and display ‘Tampa Bay’ on their grey’s. Since no preview images have surfaced for either team’s actual jersey, you will have to settle for my best guess.

The Baltimore road jersey is included in my big uniform set, as well as MVP 2008, and in addition you’ll find the three jerseys pictured above. As of now, I haven’t heard any news about the Phillies or Angels adding their respective city names to their road grey’s, but if they did I think they’d find two good concepts in my uniform set. I like how the Angels uniform borrows a bit from the predominantly red St. Louis Cardinals’ choice to add more navy in their away attire (Both the Angels and Cardinals share the same team colors) while the Phillies concept would them to join the Rockies and Twins as the only teams to go with pinstripes for both home and road sets.

So, why no updates you ask? Well, I’ve been busy. Here’s an example of some new items you’ll find on the progress page:

000g 2008 70s Throwback

003j 2008 Senators throwback

003n 1994 Home

009g 1968 Home

009m 2008 1973 Throwback

009e 2009 Road

012l 2008 St. Pete throwback

018m 2008 1980 Orange home throwback

021n 2008 80’s Rainbow throwback

So there’s all that, which is really just the tip of the MLB iceberg, then you’ve got the countless MiLB uniforms that are included. So many other new uniforms are in there, not including the many more which have been re-done and re-edited — the biggest uniform release for MVP Baseball 2005 is getting much, much larger…

Which would you prefer?

Big day today. An all Padre day. You would have thought it was Spanish father’s day with the amount of San Diego uniform work I did today. The Padres got a big-time throwback makeover, so all you San Diegans (or is it San Diego-ites? San Diego-uns? San Dieg-ons?) can write me a big fat check for $32.50, ’cause I deserve it.

Including San Diego, here are the teams that are included in Update 3:

Rays — Names fixed on 2008 uniforms, added 1998 throwback uniform

Rockies — Re-done in new templates, added 1999 ‘Turn Ahead the Clock‘ uniform

Padres — Re-done in new templates (including throwback uniforms), new chest/script logos, added 1980s throwback uniform, 2001 throwback uniform

Baltimore — Re-done in new templates

Blue Jays — Re-done in new templates

Diamondbacks — Re-done in new templates