The New York Mets, founded in 1962, returned National League baseball to New York following the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco. The Mets' uniform was designed to incorporate elements of both departed clubs, with the Dodgers' royal blue becoming the Mets' primary color and the Giants' orange the trim color, along with the Giants' "NY" crest adopted as the new team's cap logo.Okkonen, Marc. Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1993, p.53. The original Mets uniform had a "clean and classic"Id. look that, while it has undergone a number of changes over the course of the team's history, has never been substantially revised. The basic template has always been a conventional short-sleeved baseball uniform with "Mets" in cursive script on a white pinstriped home jersey, and either "NEW YORK" or "Mets" on a gray road jersey, with the lettering and numerals in blue outlined in orange. The most notable variations were the "racing stripe" uniforms of the 1980s and early '90s, and the addition of black as a trim color along with black alternate jerseys and caps that were worn from 1998 through 2011. For 2012, in recognition of its 50th anniversary, the club restored its classic look by removing the black trim from all of its uniforms and phasing out the black jerseys and caps. Since then the club has adopted blue alternate jerseys and caps, revived the black jerseys as an occasional home alternate, and participated in MLB's "City Connect" uniform program, but has generally worn its primary uniform in most games, home and away.
Primary logo The Mets' primary logo is a circular crest with an orange outline, containing a blue silhouetted representation of New York City's skyline against a white background, with the word "Mets" in orange cursive script outlined in white just below the center of the circle. At the bottom of the circle is a generic image of a suspension bridge in white, symbolizing the joining of New York's five boroughs. The skyline itself includes, from left to right, representations of a church spire (symbolizing Brooklyn, the "borough of churches"Vecsey, George. "Sports of The Times; Summer Rite Returns To Borough of Churches," The New York Times, Tuesday, June 26, 2001.), the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building (formerly the tallest building in Brooklyn), the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, and the United Nations building. Superimposed over the skyline behind the "Mets" script are orange baseball stitches. The logo was designed by cartoonist Ray Gotto, creator of the Ozark Ike comic strip.
From 1962–1998, the logo had a small interlocking "NY" in orange block letters just to the left of the "Mets" wordmark. It was also slightly revised in 1993 to make the blue one shade darker and adjust the shape of the skyline.
Current game uniforms Home uniforms The primary home uniform for the Mets is a white uniform with blue pinstripes, a conventional button-down jersey with short sleeves, and tackle-twill lettering in royal blue outlined in orange. The jersey has the word "Mets" in cursive script across the chest, angled upward, with the player's number in sans-serif block numerals underneath the "-ets" script on the player's left side. On the back of the jersey is the player's number in sans-serif block numerals, with the player's name radially arched above it in block lettering, sewn directly onto the jersey.
The Mets have two sleeve patches: a circular patch depicting the Mets' primary logo, and an advertising patch which is a blue rectangle outlined in orange, horizontally oriented, with the advertiser's logo and wordmark in white lettering. One patch appears on each sleeve; which patch appears on which sleeve depends on the player's handedness, in order to maximize television exposure of the advertisement while the player is at bat. Left-handed batters and pitchers wear the primary-logo patch on the left sleeve (its traditional location) and the ad patch on the right sleeve, as do uniformed non-players such as the manager and coaches; for right-handed batters and pitchers, the ad patch is on the left sleeve and the primary-logo patch is moved to the right sleeve. For switch-hitters, the patch placement depends on the opposing team's starting pitcher; primary on the left, ad on the right against right-handed starters, the opposite against left-handed starters.
The Mets' home uniforms are worn with blue socks, belts, and undersleeves.
Road uniforms The Mets' road uniforms are gray with blue lettering and numerals outlined in orange, "NEW YORK" in Tiffany typeface radially arched across the chest, and otherwise featuring the same numerals, lettering, and sleeve patches as the home jerseys. These uniforms were slightly redesigned for 2025, removing the blue piping on the placket, sleeve ends and pants seams that had been in place since 1995 and adding thin blue-orange-blue triple stripes around the collar, sleeve cuffs, and along the pants seams from beltline to cuff. Like the home uniforms, these are worn with blue socks, belts, and undersleeves.
Caps
The Mets' cap, worn at home and on the road, is blue with an orange interlocking "NY" crest on the front panel, and an orange button on top of the crown. The curlicue-style crest is essentially the same as that used by the New York Giants before that franchise relocated to San Francisco following the 1957 season.
The Mets' batting helmets match the primary cap in color and design. In 2020, the orange "NY" logo decal was given a metallic sheen.
Alternate uniforms The Mets' home alternate uniform consists of a black jersey with the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in blue outlined in orange, a black cap with the "NY" logo in blue outlined in orange, and plain white pants with blue piping on the seams. These uniforms are worn with black socks, belts, and undersleeves.
The road alternate jersey is a blue pullover with orange stripes around the collar and sleeve cuffs, with the lettering and numerals in blue outlined in orange. The front of the jersey features a cursive "New York" script that the club previously used on its road jerseys in 1987, with the player's number below "York" on the left side. The road alternates are worn with the blue primary caps and blue accessories.
The Mets also have a "City Connect" uniform, introduced in 2024 as part of an MLB-wide program, consisting of a concrete-gray jersey, white pants, and black caps; the design motif reflects the "concrete jungle" of New York City and the subways and bridges that connect its five boroughs, Queens in particular. The jerseys have wide-spaced black pinstripes consisting of tiny circle and diamond shapes, reflecting the symbols of the MTA's local and express Subway lines; radially arched across the chest are the letters "N Y C" in large black capitals outlined in white, in the same Tiffany typeface as the club's primary road wordmark, and the player's name and number in the same colors and typeface are on the back. On one sleeve is a circular patch in black with a purple outline and the Mets' "NY" cap insignia in purple, the color representing the 7 train which runs past Citi Field; the patch is designed to resemble subway tokens used in the city from 1953-2003. The advertising patch, recolored in black and white, appears on the opposite sleeve. The jerseys also have purple trim around the sleeve cuffs and a purple maker's mark on the upper right chest. The black caps have a purple button on top, the "NY" crest in black outlined in white, and an embroidered image of the Queensboro Bridge in dark gray across the base of the front panel; the bridge's trusses are similarly represented in the sleeve-cuff and pants-seam stripes. The Mets have worn these uniforms with both black and purple undersleeves.
Uniform history Standard uniforms 1962–77: Original design
The original Mets uniforms from 1962 were of essentially the same design as the team's current primary home uniforms, and the road uniforms used from 2012-2024. The home uniform was white with blue pinstripes, "Mets" script in blue outlined in orange angled upward across the chest, with the player's number on the back of the jersey in blue block numerals outlined in orange, but no player name on the back and no numerals on the front. The cap was blue with the orange "NY" crest on the front panel, the same as the current cap but with a blue button on top of the crown. The road uniform had "NEW YORK" in Tiffany lettering radially arched across the chest, blue placket piping, and also had no player name on the back and no numerals on the front. The primary logo appeared as a patch on the left sleeve of the road jersey in 1962, then was added to the home jersey in 1963.
Apart from the addition of numerals to the front of the jerseys in 1965, underneath the wordmark on the player's left side, and some variations to the numeral typeface, this uniform remained largely unchanged through 1973.William F. Henderson, Game-Worn MLB Jersey Guide, 6th Ed. (2012), pp.1182-85. A special New York World's Fair patch was worn on the left sleeve in 1964 and '65, in place of the Mets' primary logo. In 1969 the logo patch was supplanted by a patch commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Major League Baseball.
In 1974, the "Mets" script replaced the "NEW YORK" wordmark on the road jersey. The home uniform was unchanged.Henderson, p. 1186.
On a few occasions in 1976, the Mets wore special "pillbox" caps that had a cylindrical (as opposed to hemispherical) crown and three thin orange horizontal stripes around the cap.
1978–82: Pullovers and player names In 1978, the home and road jerseys changed from conventional button-down jerseys to Henley-style pullover jerseys, with two buttons just below the collar. The blue piping was removed from the road jerseys. Three thin stripes (blue-orange-blue) were added to the sleeve cuffs and collar on both home and road jerseys, and to the pants seams on the road uniforms.Henderson, pp. 1187-88. Responsible for the redesign was chairman of the board M. Donald Grant.Durso, Joseph. "Predictions and New Uniforms," The New York Times, Friday, April 7, 1978. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
In 1979, player names were added to the back of the jerseys, radially arched above the number in blue block letters outlined in orange. The letters were sewn onto an arched fabric "nameplate" (white on the home jerseys, grey on the road jerseys) that was in turn sewn onto the jersey itself.
1982–92: Racing stripes
In 1982, the primary logo patch was removed from the left sleeve of both jerseys, and the road uniforms added thick "racing stripes" (blue with orange borders) on the shoulders from neck to sleeve cuff, on the sides of the jerseys from armpit to hip, and along the pants seams from beltline to cuff; the collar and sleeve-cuff striping were removed.Henderson, pp. 1187-89. The two-button collar was replaced by a gray V-neck. The home jerseys received the same treatment in 1983, adding the "racing stripes" along with a blue V-neck.Henderson, p. 1191.
From 1982–84, the team occasionally wore blue alternate jerseys on the road. The 1982 blue jersey, worn only rarely, had the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in orange with gray outline, and orange-blue-orange striping on the collar and sleeve cuffs.Henderson, Game-Worn MLB Jersey Guide, 7th Ed. (2015), p. 1471. For 1983–84, the road blue alternate had the "Mets" script, numerals and lettering in grey with an orange outline, and orange-white-orange collar and sleeve-cuff striping.Id., p. 1193.