Welcome to the 2025 MLB Uniform Preview series for the National League West.
This will be part of a much larger 2025 MLB Uniform Preview which will include not only all the uniform news and updates for all 30 teams, but it will also include the multitude of changes which have taken place to uniforms overall. While Nike has addressed a good number of issues raised after last season’s disastrous debut of their new uniform template and material, a few issues won’t be addressed until after the 2025 season concludes. Other big uniform news — like the return to teams wearing their regular uniforms in the All-Star game — will all be included in the full MLB Preview, which will be released on Thursday, MLB’s true Opening Day.
The National League West consists of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres. Most teams in this division will have uniform changes for the 2025 season.
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Diamondbacks have no announced changes to their 2025 uniforms. Their home and road (pictured from 2024) will be unchanged, save for the league-wide changes made to all teams. As part of their Core Four, the D-backs have two alternate jerseys: a red jersey with “DIAMONDBACKS” spelled out across the chest, and a black alternate with the club’s “A” logo on the left chest.
Although Arizona’s Core Four is set, they are one of eight teams who will receive a new City Connect uniform this season. The team will be retiring their original sand colored “Serpientes” CC and will replace it with version 2.0 this season. The design has not been unveiled yet, but there are some whispers that the jersey will be purple. But just to be clear, until the new CC is unveiled, nothing is official.
Colorado Rockies
Since joining the National League in 1993, the Rockies have been remarkably consistent with their home and road uniforms. While they have changed over the years, the team still looks very much like it did 30+ seasons ago. So for 2025 the Rockies will continue to wear the home pinstripes and road grays as their primary uniforms (those above are from 2024).
The Rockies are also one jersey “short” in terms of their Core Four. Aside from the white pins and road grays, the Rockies have only one alternate jersey: a purple jersey with “COLORADO” across the chest, and which can be worn both at home and on the road.
This season three teams in the NL West will be getting a new City Connect, and the Rockies are one of those three. As with the Diamondbacks, the official design has not been unveiled yet, and as of this writing, no official unveiling date has been announced.
The Diamondbacks are retiring their City Connect uniforms after first introducing them in 2022. Like a couple other MLB teams, the Rockies played a bit of “mix and match” with their CCs, pairing them with white pants in 2023 and eventually wearing their CC caps and jerseys with both sets of pants.
With that CC heading to the great uniform graveyard in the sky, the Rockies will look to top that look for CC 2.0, still to come.
Los Angeles Dodgers
28 MLB teams will play their opening series this week, but the Dodgers (and Cubs), by virtue of playing in the 2025 “Tokyo Series,” have already played two official games this year. And while the Cubs were the designated home team for both games, the teams actually swapped home and road uniforms for games one and two, so fans could see the home and road uniforms for both teams. So the pictures above are from that series.
Those are the primary home and road uniforms for LA. While they do not have a dark alternate jersey, the Dodgers do have one alternate. A road jersey that is identical in every way to the gray jersey shown above, with the exception of the wordmark. “Los Angeles” in blue script replaces “Dodgers.”
The Dodgers were also the first team to receive a second City Connect uniform (and the only team to get a second CC in 2024). The team debuted the new CC on June 22, and from that point on, basically wore it for every home Saturday game.
And as has now become traditional for the defending World Champions, the Dodgers will wear gold-accented caps and jerseys which the team is expected to wear on Friday, March 28th, when the players will receive their World Series rings during a special ceremony.
Additionally, last year during the heart of the playoffs, Dodger legend and pitcher Fernando Valenzuela passed away, and the team added a memorial patch for the remainder of the 2024 season. It wasn’t known for sure (though it was expected) that the Dodgers would wear the Fernando patch for the 2025 season. We got our answer during the Tokyo Series, when the Dodgers were indeed wearing the “Fernando 34” patch in Japan.
The team will continue to honor Valenzuela’s memory throughout the 2025 season with that memorial logo.
San Francisco Giants
The Giants will continue to wear cream home uniforms and gray roadies in 2025 (2024 uniforms shown above). To round out their Core Four, the Giants will also sport an orange alternate as well as a black alternate jersey this season.
The Giants will also be the third team in the NL West to get a new City Connect uniform this season. After four years of wearing a fog-encrusted Golden Gate bridge orange accented white uniform, it has been retired. While the Giants will have a new CC this coming season, no unveiling or announcement of a reveal has yet been announced. Our only clue to the new design is that there will be “some changes made to the current version of the City Connect jersey” for 2025. How that will play out remains to be seen but both the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals (the two teams who have released CCs for 2025) have both retained some elements of their previous CC’s for their version 2.0. Will the Giants also retain some of their original CC? Stay tuned.
UPDATE: It appears the Giants new City Connect uniform has been leaked.
San Diego Padres
The Padres have no announced uniform changes for 2025, and they’ll continue to wear white pinstripes at home and tan pinstripes on the road as their primary uniforms. The Padres also have two alternates: a brown jersey worn over tan pants. They’ll also continue to wear their camo jerseys on home Sundays, a tradition they’ve now had for decades, and it’s done as a tribute to the military, particularly the U.S. Navy. The Padres have done so since 2000, with variations in the camouflage patterns over the years.
Finally, to complete the “4 + 1” protocol, the Padres will wear their City Connect for one final season, in 2025.
The team has already announced they will be introducing a new CC in 2026.
Finally, here’s an infographic created by Susan Freeman showing the NL West uniforms (cap, jersey, pants) by their official colors. The top line shows cap colors, middle is the jersey, and bottom is the pants. If the pants have a stripe, that is included as well. All “4 + 1” (Core Four plus City Connect) are shown.
You can use this explainer to see the specific breakdown of the cap/jersey/pants.
This article will be updated as any additional uniform news for NL West teams occurs.
I hope the D-Backs bring back the vest.
Anyone else miss their darker away gray? I hated the gradients but liked that darker look.
I would love to see the vests return, but NO WAY is Nike going to allow that.
As the Diamondbacks removed the ill-conceived elements from their uniforms a few years ago, they were left with a suit that was really bland. Putting turquoise in the color scheme helped to mollify that issue.
The 2016-era D-Backs looked awful, but I liked the experimentation with the darker gray. I wish more teams (particularly the progressively-minded teams aesthetically) would do more gray jersey experimentation. The Padres might have my favorite road uniforms in the game.
Yeah, I liked the darker gray too.
I think something to look out for is how the D-backs play their hats. They have a whole 4 caps in their arsenal and they subtly mixed and matched them last year. Particularly the grey, they bounced back and forth between using the all black “A” hat and the black d-snake hat with the red brim. The red jersey also saw some hat flipping. At home, it was consistently paired with the all red d-snake hat. But on the road, they wore the all black “A” hat up until the end of the season when they mixed in the black d-snake hat. This is sort of odd since the initial unveil of the new unis suggested the black d-snake hat was going to be the road hat for the red jerseys. The initial unveil also suggested that the home creams would sometimes be paired with the black “A” hat, but that never happened.
If I had it my way, I would wear the red d-snake hat with the home creams and home reds. The road greys and road reds would be paired with the black d-snake, and the all black “A” hat will always go with the black alternates home or road. The black brimmed, red “A” hat would get cut. I already don’t like dark brims with lighter colored crowns for major league teams, but also, the red A logo gets completely lost in the red. And, the teal further muddles the legibility of the hat.
I’m a big fan of their recent uni overhaul and I think it could rival the purple if they got their hat game together.
I’d love to see more “teal”, which is really turquoise/aqua, than “Sedona Red” for the Diamondbacks. Their turquoise hats for Spring Training are great.
Don’t the Padres have 2 camo jerseys? I thought they were granted an exception
I thought so too. But I do not think they wore the darker one last year.
While not worn in the regular season, the blue dodgers spring training jerseys technically serve as the dodgers alternate 1 uniform
Can you imagine the Padres with a home Yellow alternate jersey with “Padres” across the front in brown outlined in white? Alternatively, a Yellow jersey with their classic intertwined SD on the left chest as well.
I’d like to see the Diamondbacks swap out the red for purple. Otherwise the design is fine. In fact, the “A” on the home jersey is much better than anything else they’ve had on their home uniforms spelling out “Arizona,” “Diamondbacks,” or (ungh) “D-Backs.”
And just a general comment – the pant legs hiked up above the knee look even worse than the pajama pants do.
Two purple jerseys in one division would cause a catastrophic tear in the space-time continuum.
Based on the lead graphic, the D-Backs need to get with the program and adopt an interlocking logo of at least two letters. AZ, perhaps?
Giants new CC just got leaked. They’re atrocious. link
Why must we all be made to suffer so?
I am not the intended audience for these, but I kind of love them anyway. Black and orange are still predominant, so it feels like a Giants jersey (to me) despite the addition of purple. Also taps into the hippie / summer of love SF vibe. I wouldn’t like it as a primary, but for what the City Connects are supposed to be, I actually really like this one. Much better than the previous set IMO.
The horror. The horror.
Sadly the phrase
” new CC just got leaked. They’re atrocious.”
Can be used almost universally.
Can’t wait for the article on this tomorrow. This might be the worst cc in the league. What even is this? It looks like it was made with MS Paint.
As a Giants fan, I never thought I would say this. I would rather have the original City Connect.
The Diamondbacks should come up with an A/D interlocking logo to match the other 4 teams in the division.
The giants city connect has allegedly leaked. It’s on insta and Reddit if you do a quick google search. If it’s legit… um… it’s something.
Ugh. Don’t remind me how brutally silly that Padres CC uni is. I’ll be very glad to see it go after this season.
It sure is popular though!
Is there anyone doing baseball uni tracking like the college football season? I’m curious to see how many times the Dodgers wore their Los Angeles script road unis last season.
I feel there’s a column to be done here about teams like the Rockies that have stuck with completely mediocre, forgettable jerseys for a shockingly long amount of time. The Thunder are another team fitting this description that immediately comes to mind.
I think the Dodgers uniform needs to be upgraded by adding racing stripes up and down the sides of the uniforms like the Mets had in the 1980’s and early 90’s. Also a pullover would be a nice addition.
Great preview! Thank you! I sure wish the Dodgers would wear the script LA roads more often. They are now the alts.
Rockies should bring back the 2007 black tops! Vest or shirt, I don’t care. The rest of the unis are pretty clean but that one was their sharpest yet, especially under the lights when they couldn’t find a way to lose.
Serpentines is one of the best looking jerseys in history and I can’t find one for under $350 Canadian