According to my source, the Baltimore Orioles will be introducing orange pants for 2025, giving them a mono-orange option. This will actually mark the third time the O’s have had an all-orange uniform.
The orange pants will be an option to pair with the team’s alternate orange jersey.
The look will be reminiscent of the 1971-72 seasons (and their 2010 throwback), when the Orioles sported an all-orange look for just a handful of games.
Here are a few views of the original orange uniforms:
Those all orange uniforms were actually sold by Brooks Robinson Sporting Goods, produced by Powers Manufacturing. Bill Henderson has an excellent rundown of those uniforms:
The uniforms were a product of the 1970s, when baseball began really introducing bold and bright colors, made possible by the introduction of polyester in the uniform creation process. The 1971-72 Orioles orange uniforms used traditional uniform construction, with button-front jerseys, and the pants had belt loops.
For one day (on August 13, 2010), the Orioles would wear these same style uniforms as throwbacks in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays. The players all wore high cuffs, but eschewed the traditional stirrups for solid black hosiery.
Here’s what Bill Henderson had to say about the throwbacks:
The Orioles will have the option to pair their alternate orange jersey with either orange or white pants, and will wear different caps depending on the pants color.
I’d been hoping the Orioles would introduce a mono-orange alternate for some time. In fact, a little over a year and a half ago, working with designer Chris Diamond, we mocked up how an all-orange uniform might look. It’s pretty much what the Orioles will be introducing for 2025, the only difference being a slightly trim on the jersey and pants.
You can read that article here.
As far as the rest of the Orioles uniforms for 2025, they will remain unchanged (save for MLB’s new number size and NOB corrections from 2024).
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ROAD:
BLACK ALTERNATE:
As noted above, I’m ecstatic to see the mono-orange make a return for the Orioles. It’s not a look I want to see often, but I definitely want to see it. Hopefully this will pave the way for more monochrome uniform options in MLB.
I don’t know when or how often the Orioles will break out this look, nor whether the orange pants will be paired with any of their other jersey options (a black jersey/orange pants combo could be interesting).
Your thoughts?
I like em! Kinda wish there was more white like the older version, but still excited to see them. As you mentioned I think pairing the black jersey with them would look really good as well.
I would prefer orange over black myself, but I like contrasting tops/bottoms. YMMV.
Well, they don’t have a black pants option (yet…), although I *suppose* they could pair the CC pants (which wouldn’t match the jersey style) with the orange jersey.
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I know the Orioles are one of several teams to ditch parts of their original CC uniform. They began wearing white pants with it last season.
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Those are hideous. –13/10 do not recommend.
You guys hate on the Mets black uniforms but like this? This is hideous! It’s way better with white pants.
I say this affectionately, but the UW commentariat simply can’t think straight when it comes to anything black. My sociological theory is that the collective age and taste profile primes the group to hate the eras and trends that it stands in for, meaning there was fertile ground for the “BFBS” meme to get hammered in and then collectively reinforced through sheer repetition.
BFBS got started because teams were wearing black jerseys when black is not a team color.
The Mets’ colors are Giant orange and Dodger blue, so BFBS is an appropriate pejorative for the Mets.
The Orioles black alternate is not BFBS since black is a Baltimore color.
That said, I am still thumbs down on MFMS (monochrome for monochrome sake) regardless of color.
If the application of the “BFBS” term was as simple and straightforward as you make it out to be, nobody would have an issue with it. But it is extremely overused, and now gets applied to any instance of a team introducing a black element to their wardrobe, even when black is introduced to a team’s colour palette.
The application of the “BFBS” term, at least as used by Uni Watch, has ALWAYS been as simple and straightforward as this. If black isn’t a team color, and you add black…that is the very definition of Black for Black’s Sake. The example given — the Mets adding black where it had never existed before — is excellent. A team like the 49ers or Jets or Arizona Cardinals also meets the definition. Just because a team has black outlines (for example) to make a number more discernable, or black in a logo, if they add black uniforms, that too is BFBS. We can argue semantics, but the Jets are a green/white team and the 49ers are a red/gold team. The Cardinals are red/white. Creating a “neutral” black uniform is still BFBS. Does that mean all BFBS is bad? No, I’ve seen a few BFBS uniforms (like Tennessee’s football uniform) that are excellent, but they’re still BFBS.
This is all true, and all perfectly valid, but the definition of BFBS and these defenses of its use are not helpful to answer Zach’s question. My point is that, the reason why the readership likes these but not the Mets’ blacks is probably that the Mets have been found guilty of BFBS, and BFBS is a capital offense around here. Therefore, the Mets’ black jerseys don’t really get a fair shake in the head-to-head comparison. And then just a little riffing on why that is. All in good fun and very low-stakes, but no less true for it!
For the record, I was mostly referring to how BFBS is thrown around in the comments, as that’s how I interpreted what CW said. But now I’ve looked up “commentariat”, and I see that it refers to members of the media, so maybe I was wrong.
Black was a color used by the NY Giants. They were one of the first teams to sport black jerseys, in fact. Now when the Mets added Black to their uniform slate it wasn’t mentioned as an “homage” to the Giants but since they use the Giants exact cap logo, and font for their road jerseys, it could be construed as such.
At least I can read the numbers and team name on these. The Mets are impossible to see from 2 feet away.
The mismatch between massive sleeve stripes and tiny pant stripes is pretty jarring on the originals and the 2010 revivals. My prediction is this year’s go-round might suffer from a lack of white striping, but we’ll see!
As much as I love orange as a uniform color, I just don’t think mono-orange works well.
These are okay occasionally! I would hope black pants are never worn with any jersey!
Agreed – when the Mariners wear their City Connects, they look like a Little League minor team. It’s an awful sight.
I would like to see Baltimore be consistent in the width of the pants and sleeve stripes. It would also be nice to see a white stripe between the two black stripes.
Where does one find this style guide?
One doesn’t “find” it — I don’t even have access to it. My anonymous source has been gracious enough to provide these images (as they did last year).
Phil can your anonymous source give you the Red Sox page, please and thank you.
Ah, right. Well if there are any Giants changes, I’d be happy to know
O’s fan passing through, as long as they’re worn sparingly, I’m happy with it. Or if they replaced the CCs, that’s fine too (I know it’s not the case but I can dream).
I always thought the sleeve stripes on the orange jersey should be white-black-white to mirror the script, rather than black-orange-black.
love them! Not every day but would be cool if it became the uni for every Sunday home game or something
Do I think mono-orange is an attractive uniform combo? No, I do not. Do I applaud the Orioles for doing this, wish they’d wear the orange pants with even more tops, and wish more teams would adopt team-color pants as part of their uniforms? Heck yeah I do! “Is it pretty” and “Is it a good design” are two very different questions. Two of the main functional purposes of any uniform design are to clearly differentiate members of the two teams playing on the field from one another for spectators and to clearly identify a team’s visual identity. Team-color pants absolutely achieve both objectives better than white or gray. In that regard, the orange pants are an example of, objectively speaking, good design. I hope this sparks a team-color-pants renaissance across the sport.
Nice to see colored pants make it into a few more mlb teams. white and grey are boring. Add some colored pants every now and then. Hopefully black jersey/orange pants are worn a few times this season.
Love the mono-orange look. I think white/orange might be interesting as well.
The mono-orange look is intrinsically not attractive, but I think it’s so fun! Especially if only sprinkled in a few times a year. I also find the Orioles orange jersey to be underutilized, so hopefully this means that it’ll be worn more. Especially if it means less of the CC uniform.
I want to see more teams replicating this, at least on a trial basis. Cleveland in red, Seattle in teal, Athletics in yellow, and Colorado in purple would be initial nominees. And in each case, the team has a hat that can be paired with the uniform naturally to form a non-mono look: Cleveland navy/red, Seattle navy, Athletics green/yellow, Colorado black/purple.
[Shouting at the wind] Seattle is not teal!
Northwest Green is 0, 92, 92.
Pantone Teal Green is something like 0, 99, 97.
That’s close enough to be indiscernible to most people.
Call it what you want, but everyone knows what I meant. I’m not going to included the specific name for the colour when the one I used is a few values off.
I think the Tigers would look good in Monolulu Blue.
Now that made me laugh!
Orange is my favorite color, but I can’t say I like this at all. However, it is still miles better than any CC design since it doesn’t have any unnecessary gimmicks baked in.
If teams are going to start doing full colors uniforms I’d rather see them all go with faded versions of the colors, like how so many royal blue teams opted for baby blue instead of gray. Wondering how a faded / pastel ish orange would work here.
Already looked at that.
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NL: link
Unfortunately, Chris didn’t mock up an Orioles “pastel” orange, but he did for the Astros (so just picture this in the Orioles’ template): link
Like the all orange look. I would be good to see an orange or orange/white cap with the white or gray uniform. The orioles road gray with the contrasting orange lettering is one of the best uniforms in MLB. The BFBS thing started in the 1990’s because the Chicago White Sox changed to black in 1991 and there sales took off and reached record levels. And after that other teams like Mets, Reds, Royals changed to black to increase merchandise sales.
Orange pants will look great under the white or black jersey. They will elevate the CC. But mono-orange is not worth a look.
Don’t know if this was mentioned or not but if they brought back the orange panel cap, this combination will be complete.
Is there such a thing as too much orange?
Nah.
Watch a Bengals Browns game and see what you think.
They need to go with the Stirrups. A little bit different than the 70’s though. Black Stirrups with orange sanitaries would work.
The uni set graphics at the bottom got my hopes up that the hideous ad patch was magically disappearing… Then I remembered the dark world we live in.
How about an orange, sleeveless jersey with the black long sleeve underneath?
Orioles are one of the few teams that make an orange monochrome uniform work in my opinion – as long as they don’t go crazy over wearing it in a season. Black jersey with orange pants wouldn’t be a back look either in small doses.