Cardinals 2025 Jerseys

Yesterday (Feb 17, 2025) the Cardinals posted to their instagram some photos of the team back in Jupiter for Spring Training. And it allowed us to see some early shots of the new road uniforms.

Last year Nike and Fanatics and probably MLB (and anyone else I can implicate) colossally screwed up the uniforms across the entire league. This year it seems they’re making some fixes based on well warranted fan and player feedback.

A few main things stand out from the photos we got. Take a look.

Already from the Jordan Walker photo above, we can see it looks like the gray pants and gray shirt match really well. Last year the shirts and pants were clearly made of two very different materials, and it created two noticeably mismatched gray colors. For more info on the grays not matching, take a look at our article last year, The Grays Don’t Match. This year, it looks like the colors are much more balanced, and it looks like the uniform fabric they’re using is a higher quality than last year’s paper towels.

The next big change we notice as seen in the photos above, the new shirts don’t have the little pseudo sun collar around the shirt’s neckline that the 2024 shirts had. I personally did not like the sun collars from last year, I think it was unnecessary and complicated, and I’m glad they’ve gone more simplistic.

Last and worst, I regret to inform you that the Birds on the Patch has returned for the second season in a row. A machine stitched our logo onto a cheap patch and ironed it on to the jersey, at least that’s what it looks like. From the photo seen above, you can clearly see the cheap and ugly patch outlines around the Birds on the Bat logo, creating an ugly Birds on the Patch jersey.

For literally 102 years in a row, the Cardinal birds on our uniforms were chain-stitch hand embroidered directly onto the uniform. Nike and Fanatics and the other corporate criminals tragically ended that tradition, probably to save themselves and their multi-billion dollar companies some money. Disgusting. The other two uniform changes I see as positives, fixing the Birds on the Patch back to the real embroidery will be one of the last steps to fixing this uniform catastrophe.