PHILADELPHIA – Greg Amsinger has one goal every time he steps onto the MLB All-Star Red Carpet: make baseball’s biggest stars ask, “What is he wearing?”
For the last 16 years, the MLB Network host has helped transform the All-Star Red Carpet Show presented by Mastercard, along with co-host Harold Reynolds, into one of the marquee events of All-Star Week. Along the way, he's challenged himself -- and the players -- to keep raising the bar.
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“Harold and I and our entire MLB Network team, we’re really proud of the fact that we kind of made this event a jewel event for Major League Baseball,” Amsinger said during a phone interview with MLB.com. “The players lean into it. Their wives and girlfriends absolutely love it. Even their children are dressed to the nines.”
The process of picking his outfit begins about two months before the event. His love for fashion comes from enjoying “looking the part” on television. He never wanted to be someone who didn't care about his shirt-and-tie combinations.
“It’s one of the few things I do well: style my hair and dress myself,” Amsinger said. “I want the red carpet to be blatantly different from anything I wear on MLB Tonight or the national pregame show. I want this to be a break from the normal Greg look.”
When the show debuted in 2009, he and Reynolds kept things simple, wearing black suits, white shirts and black ties while letting the players show out and pop.
“Then after a couple of years, I was like, ‘I kind of want to play too,’” Amsinger said. “I’m a very competitive person and I put the players on blast. There is no reason MLB players in the best shape of their lives get out-dressed by a talking head in his mid-40s.”
“The players love to talk trash to me when they're up on the red carpet and we're walking through their fit and they're looking at my fit.”
Since then, Amsinger has made a point of never repeating an outfit. His favorite looks include white shorts that turned heads in Los Angeles, an all-black country-inspired outfit in Arlington, a red-and-white pinstripe blazer in Cleveland and a bright canary yellow blazer in Washington.
One of his most meaningful outfits came in Seattle, where he paid tribute to Ken Griffey Jr. with a backwards Mariners cap, a Ken Griffey Jr. bubblegum T-shirt beneath a white blazer and white Alexander McQueen sneakers.
Last year’s look in Atlanta may have topped them all.
“I had a peach suit. I wanted to think of it like a green leaf stem of a Georgia Peach,” Amsinger said. “So I had this green pocket square, these green Ray Ban sunglasses that I absolutely love. I had long hair, [slicked] back. Oh my gosh! I don’t think I ever looked better.”
While Amsinger meticulously plans each ensemble, there are two details he never chooses himself.
Outside of his everyday Omega Seamaster watch, every watch in his collection is a gift from his children. They also pick out the colognes they give him for birthdays and Father’s Day.
“I think about their faces when they gave me the cologne, and when I wear the [watches],” Amsinger said.
As he elevated his own style, he watched players begin embracing the red carpet as more than another stop during All-Star festivities. The shift became unmistakable in 2018 when Manny Machado arrived in Washington.
“Machado had a fresh cut along the side. His hair was swooped over,” Amsinger said. “Now, he gave his wife all the credit for the look, but he had this gorgeous gray suit, total fit and this crazy chain around his neck with no shirt underneath. And I was like, ‘What is going on?’ [He was] showing his pecs off.”
“To me, when Manny Machado did that, it was like, ‘OK, we’ve got a real red carpet.’”
The following year, Francisco Lindor leaned into Cleveland’s rock-and-roll identity with ripped jeans and spikes on his leather jacket. Bryce Harper’s “Miami Vice”-inspired look honoring Don Johnson in 2017 also stands out among Amsinger's favorites.
“It’s just a festive, awesome environment and I enjoy the fact that young fans can look at these baseball players and go, ‘Wow, they like fashion too.’ That’s also a side element to it that I’m really proud of,” Amsinger said.
“We’ve built something where the All-Stars that come every year, we can’t wait to see what they roll out on the red carpet. That’s when you know you have a special event.”