NEW YORK — For more than 60 years, the Mets have been defined by two colors. Dodgers blue and Giants orange. Almost every uniform they’ve worn since their founding has featured a combination of these hues.
They’re looking to add two more colors to their regular rotation. Gray for the concrete jungle of New York City, purple for his Route 7 route to Citi Field. These are the colors featured on the Mets’ City Connect uniforms, which they unveiled on Friday. Starting April 27, the Mets will wear City Connect uniforms on Saturdays against City.
“It’s all about connecting to New York,” said Andy Goldberg, the Mets’ chief marketing officer and part of the team that worked with Nike on the City Connect thread. “Design-wise, a lot of detail and focus went into this idea of not being orange and blue. It means connecting to New York. It’s meant to be more than just an alternate uniform for the Mets. That’s what we are. It’s a way for Met fans to express themselves around the world.”
In addition to the color scheme, every detail of the uniform is important, including:
The design is the result of more than two years of planning by Goldberg, Mets Executive Director of Consumer Products James Benesh, and the team at Nike. The group considered approximately 25 to 30 variations and received approval from Mets players Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo before deciding on the final version.
“It looks like something you’d wear around town,” Goldberg said.
The City Connect program, introduced in 2021, gave teams a way to express their creativity by connecting alternate uniform sets to surrounding urban areas. Examples include the Red Sox, who use a blue and yellow color scheme to honor the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and the Giants, who use gold to honor his Gate and Bridge.
The Mets are one of eight teams to debut City Connect uniforms this year. The Yankees and Athletics are the only two teams that do not have City Connect uniforms.
