The Washington Nationals are altering one in every of their uniforms after which including a complete new one for the upcoming 2024 Main League Baseball season.
Unveiled this afternoon, we’ll begin with the brand new uniform. The brand new jersey is an alternate and pullover model fairly than a button-up; that is the primary pullover jersey within the franchise historical past of the Montreal Expos-Washington Nationals (apart from that Players Weekend thing).
The highest is white with navy blue sleeves with purple, white, and blue striping on the cuffs. The neck includes a “V” model with the identical purple/white/blue striping. Within the higher left nook of the chest is the membership’s alternate “W” Capitol logo, which can be worn on the entrance of the club’s caps.
On the sleeve is a brand new emblem, an interlocked “DC” emblem positioned upon a blue map of the District of Columbia.
Be aware this new jersey is a house alternate jersey. The Nats’ house white jersey from the previous few seasons — the one with Nationals scripted across the front — stays untouched and can nonetheless be worn as their main house jersey in 2024.
The again of the jersey makes use of the Nationals’ standard title and quantity model, purple trimmed in blue for the quantity, and the participant title above it arched in purple and blue.
Washington will even be enjoying with a brand new street jersey in 2024, replacing the red scripted wordmark across the chest with a extra normal navy blue block lettering trimmed in white and purple. Purple/white/blue trim across the neck and on the finish of every sleeve. The Washington Nationals logo stays on the sleeve.
The again of the jersey offers us a blue participant title trimmed in purple with the quantity beneath in purple with blue trim — principally the identical model as on the entrance with the crew title and quantity utilizing the identical color patterns.
Although they’re not proven in any of the pictures we acquired, the Nats are additionally updating their street pant striping to match these on the jerseys.
“The gray jersey and corresponding pants are now trimmed in a tricolour red, white and blue piping, replacing the dual red and blue trim from previous seasons,” mentioned the press launch from the crew.
One other juicy nugget included within the Nationals uniform information at present was that the membership has acknowledged they are going to be dropping their Cherry Blossom City Connect uniforms following the 2024 season. They are going to nonetheless be worn for Friday and Saturday house video games this season earlier than they’re retired for good as soon as the season concludes. The Nats launched the gray uniform with pink cherry blossoms in the beginning of the 2022 season.
The change to the street uniform marks the start of the third distinct street jersey design worn by the membership since they relocated from Montreal in time for the 2005 season.
Their first street uniform featured an arched WASHINGTON in blue with gold shadowing and purple trim; this was modified in 2011 to a method which I favored to fake was a tribute to the old Montreal Expos road uniforms as a result of… nicely, they actually appeared like them! The second model was used proper up till the top of this previous season.
