Red Sox First Baseman Tristan Casas Rocks Team Colors – in Nail Polish

Red Sox first baseman Tristan Casas is making a fashion statement supportive of his team, wearing red nail polish on his fingernails and white polish on his toenails, and fans are loving it.

LGBTQ athletics site Outsports noted that "Casas' red nails are really going to pop when set off against the classic bright white of the Red Sox home uniforms. Adding glitter to one finger on each hand is a delightful extra bit of zazz."

"Casas choosing to zhuzh his middle fingers is also a nice tribute to the favorite digit of Boston sports fans, especially when the New York Yankees are in town," the article added.

"As players have found the freedom to share more of themselves with the fans, some of them have also begun to step outside the stereotypical 'testosterone-fueled jock' image of masculinity that the game has embraced in the past," the site noted, recalling how another player – Joc Pederson of the Atlanta Braves – wore a pearl necklace to games... and not just any games, but the Braves' "World Series run in 2021..."

Julian McWilliams, a staff writer for the Boston Globe – the newspaper of record for the Red Sox's home town – took to Twitter with a photo of Casas' brightly painted nails (with his white-painted toenails also visible in the photo). "Triston Casas is seen here wearing red fingernail/white toenail polish," McWilliams reported. "Said he will likely rock this look during the season."

"That's my content for the day," McWilliams signed off on the post – a veritable mic drop worthy of the player's fashion statement.

Not only are Casas' color choices the team colors of the Red Sox, they also make an indelible signal about the straight pro ballplayer's security in his own masculinity. His comfort with finger bling, Outsports wrote, "makes baseball a more compelling and welcoming game."

Outsports and other sources paired Casas' nail-painting with news of a somewhat different, but still significant, flavor: As previously reported at EDGE, Anderson Comás, a White Sox prospect, made history as only the third minor league baseball player to come out as gay with a Feb. 20 Instagram post.

In his post, Comás wrote that "being a professional baseball player is the best thing that happened to me, so I just wanna say something to those people that say that gay people can not be someone in this life, well look at me I'm gay, and I'm a professional athlete, so that didn't stop me from making my dreams come true."

The pro athlete went on to add: "I'm doing this cause I wanna be an inspiration for those like me out there fitting for their dreams; please don't listen to those stupid things that people say about us, fight for your dreams, believe in yourself, and go for it."

See some of Tristan Casas' other looks from the Insta posts included below.