I get that you have to tiptoe around your star player, but this is a baseball team and one of the things you do for your PAYCHECK is wear the UNIFORM. And in uniform we wear our caps correctly.
Does he need to tuck in his jersey? Can he wear a non-matching undershirt in violation of league rules? Next he’ll talk to the opposing players while on base.
If poor Matt Harvey wore his cap backwards you’d all do blog posts making fun of him.
Yoenis Cespedes’ wearing a backward cap around the batting cage isn’t a problem for Mets manager Terry Collins, and the outfielder called it a “nonissue.”
Source: New York Mets OK with Yoenis Cespedes’ backwards cap at cage