Juan Soto isn’t the only addition the New York Mets are making to their lineup in 2025.
At their Amazin’ Day event yesterday, the Mets unveiled their new road jersey for the upcoming season. We’re still awaiting confirmation from the team, but for now, it is our understanding that this jersey will replace their road grey jerseys as the Mets’ full-time road uniform.
The jersey is royal blue and features a scripted “New York” logo across the front in blue and trimmed with orange. The player’s number is on the front, below and to the left of this wordmark in the same colourway. The back of the jersey shows the same design for the player’s name and number. A single orange stripe is worn on each sleeve and around the collar. The New York Mets logo is on one sleeve, and an advertisement for New York-Presbyterian is on the other.
The uniform is essentially a recoloured version of the Mets road grey uniforms worn during the 1987 season (minus the racing stripes), and just like that ’87 Mets road look, the jersey is a pullover — meaning, no buttons down the front.
Pullover jerseys were very popular across Major League Baseball in the 1970s and ’80s, with the Pittsburgh Pirates first introducing them as an alternate option in 1970. An avalanche of pullovers quickly followed, and by the 1978 season, only five teams in the league remained who had not yet switched to the style. Throughout the 1980s, teams slowly changed back to the more traditional button-up style before the pullover was finally wiped out from the league completely when the Cincinnati Reds introduced their new uniforms for the 1993 season. The Mets last wore pullovers in 1990.
If this new blue jersey replaces the road greys, it will be the first time a New York-based Major League Baseball club would be without a grey uniform in their rotation since the 1906 New York Highlanders (future Yankees) wore all-black uniforms on the road.
Fans will get their first look at the new uniform in action when the Mets travel to Houston to open the 2025 regular season against the Astros on March 27th.
