[Editor’s Note: Our own Susan Freeman, long-time reader, contributor, and new Ticker Assistant, bringing us our first look at the caps and uniforms from Spring Training. Today she looks at the NL. If you missed yesterday’s piece on the AL, click here. — PH]
We have the second part of our quick roundup of available shots of uniforms as players started reporting to Spring Training last week. As we have seen, small name fonts appear to be gone and rear number size has been restored. Of the placket splits found, it seems they are in the same place as last year so it looks like no change was done to that aspect. And now for the National League.
NL East
Philadelphia Phillies
The Phillies are dressed to the nines in their home pinstripes. A look at the front in action along with a full-length view of the back of the jersey. The back has been restored.
Atlanta Braves
The Braves are wearing their alt blues and their road gray pants. Front view along with one in action. Nice shot of several back views and one in action too.
New York Mets
The Mets are showing off their new blue jerseys with their new road pants. Full-length view of the front of the jersey in action. How about a side view? Great view of the back of the new blue jerseys. Back of the jersey in action. And a video with the new blue jerseys.
Washington Nationals
The Nationals have chosen to wear their new red jersey with their home white pants – an odd choice with the cap. Even still, the cap is an odd choice for Spring Training when they are getting new City Connects. Here is the front of the jersey in action. And here is the full photo from the image below – lots of unis to see. The back of the jersey can be seen here.
Miami Marlins
The Marlins have paired their bright blue alts and white home pants with their Spring Training cap. Back view of the jersey is here. Nice video of the blue uni in action. This video has a view of Quantrill’s blue jersey back. And here’s an overview video for your enjoyment.
NL Central
Milwaukee Brewers
The Brewers are popping with the navy alts and road gray pants. In this full front view the blues are brighter in the sun. The back of the jersey shot is in the splash photo. A nice action shot here. Video of pitcher in action.
Chicago Cubs
The Cubs have paired their blue alts and road grays with the bright Spring Training cap. The back can also be seen in this action shot of the full uni. A decent view of the back of the jersey can be seen here. Another view of the back of the jersey.
St. Louis Cardinals
The Cards are rocking the road grays. Back of the jersey visible here. Found a video of the boys in uniform.
Cincinnati Reds
The Reds are wearing red alts and road gray pants. Here is a full-length action shot. We got a really nice full view of the back of the jersey. The Pete Rose patch can also be seen in this video.
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pirates are wearing black alts and road gray pants. Full frontal view is here. We have an action shot. And the jersey back can be seen here. Great video action of the uniform. A tease video with several nameplates.
NL West
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Dodgers are showing off their blue alts paired with their home white pants. Full front view of the uni. Back of the jersey is visible here. A side-by-side comparison shows the placket split is the same as last year. You can really see the placket split here. Nice combined view of several players. Video of Ohtani in action.
San Diego Padres
The Padres are looking good in brown alts and sand pants. The jersey back view is also compliments of Darvish. Side-by-side comparison again shows the placket splits are the same as last year. Good bullpen video highlighting the uniform.
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Diamondbacks are staying colorful in their black alts and home white pants. Back view from the splash photo. And a great back view with catcher equipment in play.
San Francisco Giants
The Giants are sporting black alts but with gray road pants. Here’s a bunch of guys standing around for the camera giving us a view of the front in different light. Talk about different light – here is a dark look. And here is the back of the jersey. Here is a video with a good back view.
Colorado Rockies
The Rockies are wearing purple alts with their white alt pants. Here is the back of the jersey. Just not many photos of these yet that I could find. Purple majesty action video.
And that will wrap up the National League.
Just me, or do the Nats wearing two different stylized Ws look pretty stupid? I like the pre-1961 W and the 70s W, but pick one or the other.
The Nats have had an identity crisis for a long time.
Which only got worse with the current off-brand, flea market looking road jerseys.
Washington now needs to sign Walgreens as a uniform sponsor to add another slightly different W to their identity.
Agree! Pick a W and stick with it!
As a Nationals fan in the DC area, I have a problem with the 2 distinctly different Ws on the jersey and cap. Last season they switched to a block-lettered “WASHINGTON” road jersey and brought in this same hat for Spring training, going harder on the block W thing. What they lost was a great road jersey with the curly W in a cursive “Washington”. Since practically every team kept their 2024 spring caps for this 2025 spring season, their pairing it with the red curly W jersey they brought back this year (which was ditched just a couple years ago anyway). Now having both of the Ws on each player is a mess. Love the curly W!
Same
The block W, while used longer in DC baseball history is boring. Just a merch grab.
I may be in the minority, but I miss nameplates and the days when NOBs were one color.
Also, the Brewers’ gold hat, the Marlins’ blue hat, the Braves’ red hat, and the Giants’ orange hat should all become part of their regular season attire.
Those new Met’s unis look worse on the field
They remind me of pajamas. A day or two ago, I saw a picture of a player’s back and the name was almost hard to see, and this was up close. These are going to be a disaster trying to watch a game, probably worse than the black Marlin jerseys before they replaced the black names and numbers with white.
The Brewers NOB looks a bit small to me. Perhaps it’s just the font? And the Mets blue on blue is “blu-tal”. Who thought that was a good idea?
Ugh; the Mets really s*** the bed with those blue alts. You can’t read them from any distance, least of all the NOBs; the back numerals are visible from a bit farther. Total fail.
I don’t hate the new road pants, but they remind me too much of 1993, the 103-loss disaster.
I’m disappointed to see the Phillies didn’t return to chain stitching. Maybe next year when home uniforms are the pre-2024 heavier fabric again? Fingers crossed.
Chain stitching is beyond Nike’s limited abilities. I’d keep our fingers crossed that Nike gets the boot when their contract is up allowing Majestic to go back to making baseball uniforms.
The Cardinals almost lost their chain stitching, but they fought tooth n nail to keep it. Nike no longer will do it directly on the jersey but will chain stitch the birds on bar logo onto a patch.
It was a compromise.
Phillies should try the same.
– Why would the Pirates go with black jerseys in the searing spring training sun instead of a beautiful, bright yellow top?
– The Giants shade of orange is terrible, in that it looks almost red in certain lights.
– The Marlins are a mess. They could go with teal, something that utilizes pink, or any number of bright color schemes.
– I like the Padres sand pants in theory. But that color, along with no visible hosiery, make it appear they are wearing some type of khaki work pants. As if dad got off work and went straight to the ball field to play catch with his son.
– Washington has many decades of unique Senators unis from which to draw inspiration. And their curly-W is beautiful. So how is it that they continue to mangle their current designs?
– Having now viewed all the spring training uniforms over the past two days (well done, Susan), it’s so obvious how criminally unused maroon and forest green are. With so many alternate uniforms nowadays, it can be hard to create a truly unique look. Yet, those colors are just begging to be used. The next expansion/relocated franchise would be foolish not to jump on those colors.
Piling on: The Mets’ uniforms are even worse than I feared.
How soon are people going to regret clamoring for the bigger NOB font?
The smaller font was just better proportioned for the jersey and better looking on TV.
The NOBs last year looked comically small and cheap to me.
I prefer the smaller ones (well, I prefer NNOB) also. Players with really long names, like Pete Crow-Armstrong, are going to look like clowns with the bigger names and the lower positioning makes it even worse.
Differeing opinion. I LOVE those new Mets jerseys. Would look better with some white trim, but these have really grown on me after seeing action shots.
I really like the Nationals’ cap – but not with that jersey. Would look better with a dark top.
I really like a ton of these looks. I wish MLB teams would experiment a bit more with their specific uniform combos, like we see in the NHL and NFL. You can make some really great combos in MLB The Show, some of which improve less attractive sets such as City Connects.
I don’t know what yall are complaining about, those Mets jerseys are perfectly good spring training jerseys!
Oh wait, oh these are gonna be worn during the regular season? Oh man. Like white after Labor Day, those should be banned from being worn after St. Paddy’s Day
Big thing noticed about the Cardinals jerseys. I think these were the most telling about the future of MLB uniforms.
So, as we know, the grey roads are returning to the old fabric. These Cards unis are our first look at exactly what that entails. Two things I noticed.
1. There’s no more extra lip around the collar. IDK if that’s the proper term, I just call it a lip because that’s what it looks like.
2. The MLB logo still appears to be below the seam, closer to the name, even though the extra lip is gone and the fabric has changed.
So what that seems to reveal is that we’re not just going back to the 2023 template. It seems like the 2025 greys, and likely the 2026 and later jersey across the board, will be like a hybrid of the 2023 and 2024 templates with elements of both. Most significantly, at least for now it doesn’t look like MLB intends to move the logo back above the placket seam on the back.
We can’t see it in these photos but I’d be willing to bet the thin mesh patches that were under the arms and in the back bottom of the jerseys in 2023 will also not return.
Great observations Alex
I’ll actually have an article on this tomorrow (along with our Cardinals uniform expert Oliver Kodner).
The Giants don’t have home white pants as this article indicates and the ones in the photo are most definitely their road gray pants, not the home cream pants. They previously had white pants with their City Connects, but those are no more and rumor has it (from a local beat reporter) that the new City Connects will be “darker”.
Sorry, that is supposed to be road gray pants. Fixed.
1) The Dodgers front numbers are back to their old proportions. Good.
2) The Dodgers back numbers are back to being too thin, after actually looking better last year. Bad.
3) I thought the Dodgers fixed the placket break?
4) The Mets blue road alts are as bad as we thought or perhaps worse. Will be mostly illegible except for TV closeups.
5) The orange Mr. Met hats are ridiculous and look like a white blob on an orange cap.
The Reds need to ditch the stylized letters and numbers. I’ll never understand why ownership is so tied to this style. You would think after 18 years someone would finally realize it’s not a good look. The Reds should be wearing uniforms with block letters and numbers. It would be a vast improvement over the cartoonish style they wear now.
Once again, thank you for reporting on what teams are wearing and providing some pictures.
YESS!! The Dodgers red front numbers are full sized again! Out of all the changes last year the way they miniaturized the red number irked me the most. I’m so happy.
I still don’t understand why it’s such a “problem” to fix the respective placket breaks. Thank you for showing visually how the Dodgers and Padres, among others, looked so much better in 2023.
What really puts me off these uniforms is the white rectangular patch on the side of the hats. What an ugly detail that dominates the whole look of all of these uniforms.
What really puts me off these uniforms is the white rectangular patch on the side of the hats. What an ugly detail that dominates the whole look of all of these uniforms.
That Kroger patch is awful. Kroger actually has a blue oval logo that would have looked way better than the big white patch with small blue letters.
I like the D-Backs teal (which is really aqua/turquoise) better now than their old teal that they used to have when they also had purple. I like how this is more the primary color, and red the accent. However, like the Pirates and Giants, it seems odd to wear black jerseys when the spring training games are during the day time sun.
Sorry so late to the party on the comments.
The Cubs ST hat looks terrible; I’m thinking it needs red somewhere, anywhere! It just doesn’t go well with their unis.
I was hoping the Reds would go with a Mr. Redlegs cap for spring training. It’s one of my favorite logos in all of sports. Missed opportunity. I do have a Mr. Redlegs cap though so I may rock that out this weekend.
It is great to see the HUGE…I mean properly sized NOBs again. Just look at the Braves for example. Chef’s kiss!
Didn’t last year’s Phillies unis look like they had 3 L’s due to the placket break? Looks like they shored that up.
It was jarring to see Verlander in a Giants uni.
All I want is the swingman above the pipping. It’s a long shot, but I’ll forgive Nike for everything that happened last year if they do