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New York Mets Officially Unveil New Gray Road Jersey

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The New York Mets have now officially unveiled their new gray road jersey for the 2025 season.

I had the exclusive on this one back in early February, which was picked up by a few local NY Mets websites.

And here is your first look at the new jersey:

Here’s what I said about the jersey based on the Style Guide’s rendering:

The new jersey has removed the solid blue headspoon (the placket piping) as well as the blue piping by the sleeve hems. In its place is a royal/orange/royal stripe added to the sleeve hems and around the collar. Front numbers are smaller than 2024 (they had always been slightly smaller than the standardized height Nike applied to all teams’ number heights on last year’s template), so that’s more of a return to the old style. It’s difficult to tell on the graphic below, but the NOB has increased in size (a change Nike has made for 2025 for all teams).

To pair with the new jersey the Mets also slightly altered the trim on their gray pants. They have removed the thin royal piping and replaced it with the same royal/orange/royal stripe as was added to the jersey. What was already one of the best road uniforms in baseball may just have gotten even better!

Here’s one more look at the 2024 and 2025 Style Guide renderings so as to compare the changes from last year to this:

I know there are a lot of Mets fans who feel this is a downgrade, but I disagree. I don’t like placket piping on jerseys where wordmarks “cross” on top of it. I’m fine with placket piping (aka “headspoons”) for jerseys that have a logo or number or both that don’t sit atop the placket. It wouldn’t be a dealbreaker, and I thought the road gray the Mets have been wearing for the past dozen years is still one of the best in baseball…but I think this one will be even better. We’ll see them in action soon enough.

Now that we’ve seen a photo of the jersey, what do you guys think?

 
  
 
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Comments (32)

    Agree. Waiting for the Giants to drop the head spoon for the same reason.

    I’m not sure why they ever added it. I don’t mind it on the black jersey, and I could go either way with it on the orange jersey. But the road jersey looked so much better without it

    Anyone know when/why they went from the old style placket piping that crossed over and actually went around the collar, (link)
    to the current headspoon version? The original placket piping actually looks good, so strange someone thought it was a good idea to switch to the headspoon.

    This looks quite good as does the original so I’m happy either way.

    Downgrade. How much of a downgrade remains to be seen. I mean, I get it, but the 1962-73/1995-97/2012-2024 Mets road uniform was *the* best in baseball. Now not only have they gone and changed it but the new one harks back to one of the darkest eras in club history, 1978-81.

    Please don’t equate a uniform with losing (or one of the darkest eras in club history). They also wore their worst non-black uniform when they won the 86 World Series, so everyone thinks that’s the bees knees, but pinstripes AND racing stripes are terrible together. The road unis during the WS run were fine, since they only had solid gray with those.

    And Jay — the 1962-1973 jerseys were also worn during some of the Mets worst years (basically 1962-67/8), the 95-97 teams were much better, but still nothing to write home about, and the CitiField years … with a few exceptions for 2015, 2022 and 2024 … weren’t necessarily anything to write home about.

    We can certainly disagree on whether this new road uniform is better than what it is replacing. But please don’t hate on a good looking uniform because it reminds you of bad years. The unis do not win and lose games.

    I know on a site like this it’s almost impossible NOT to equate uniforms with winning and losing…but we must never dismiss a great uniform (Pat Patriot, Bucco Bruce, etc.) as a “losing” one simply because the team sucked during the period the uni was worn.

    Mee-yow. ;) :D

    You know, it’s funny, I don’t actually remember the 1978-81 years/teams/uniforms because I wasn’t watching the Mets then; I still liked the Yankees at that age. The “racing stripes” were the first Mets uniforms I actually rooted for.

    And look, I get it; the design change wasn’t arbitrary, it was to conform to the cut and seams of the new jersey template. The placket piping didn’t work as well or look as good with the narrower placket, which is why everyone is moving away from it and in the direction of collar striping instead. Which sucks.

    Again, I’ll reserve judgment on how “good looking” this is (or isn’t) until I see it on the field. I jus tloved the old design; it’s a shame they had to abandon it.

    Thank you, Phil. Except for that part about pinstripes and racing stripes. Everything else is spot on.

    I was hoping the jersey would be a pullover like the blue alts, but I’m a big fan of this regardless.

    I’ve always wanted this look but on a cream-colored jersey for Sunday games ala the Phillies. This look isn’t new. The Mets wore this in the 1970s.

    I definitely think this is an upgrade, the striping around the collar and sleeve hems make it pop just enough to offset all the gray. But why does the jersey in the photo not have a number on front as shown by the style guide?

    It would be hard to find a potential Mets jersey buyer who doesn’t already have one or more of the older styles, so Nike had to come up with something “new” that wouldn’t alienate long-time fans. As far as I’m concerned, no Mets road uniform comes close to the style and class of the headspoon grays, which go all the way back to 1962, and the Amazin’s have had more than their share of uniform disasters. These aren’t bad, but they certainly aren’t better.

    New trim along new Nike-added sun collar. Headspoon removed from smaller placket. This looks like a change made to fit the new Nike uniforms more than anything else.

    I liked the previous one and I like this one. Basically I like every Mets jersey ever, except for the current blue one and all the black jerseys. Would have liked a grey cap with a royal blue bill and squatchee plus a blue NY monogram with orange outline to go with this.

    7 letters, I think the “Y” should have been flush to the edge of the jersey to give it more balance. The extra space makes it look off-centered.

    This is definitely an improvement over the previous uniform. Overall very nice but I don’t like the stripes around the collar. I would be nice to see an alternate with the Mets home script on it with a white and orange outline. I also think the 74-77 road uniforms were very underrated as well as the 1991-1992.

    The word mark is still too small. I believe they reduced the size of the letters last year to better fit across the new placket/headspoon (looks really silly on big guys like Alonzo). Would be nice if they increased the size back to pre-2024 size since they have now eliminated the headspoon.

    hmmm. I may be wrong and it’s hard to tell without zooming in, but I think this one doesn’t have the sun collar thing but that’s real trim sewn on traditionally instead. The placket is still a good bit too narrow for my taste, but are the home jerseys this year the last we will see of that sun collar?

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