ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Cardinals are planning to shake up their wardrobe in 2024. The Cardinals will no longer use red-dominant jerseys in spring training and plan to introduce a City Connect uniform later this year.
A report Wednesday from Uni-Watch.com first noted the Cardinals would scrap their red spring training jerseys, which have been used during home and road preseason games over the last several years. Uni-Watch further states the Cardinals will use their standard home white and road gray jerseys during Grapefruit League play rather than red ones.
A spokesperson from the St. Louis Cardinals confirmed with FOX 2 that those aforementioned changes and more are coming with the team’s uniform lineup.
The spokesperson also told FOX 2 that the team plans to introduce a City Connect jersey in 2024. The City Connect brand is sponsored by Nike, Inc. and consists of alternate uniforms with different color schemes, fonts and graphic elements than traditional uniforms. Twenty teams have debuted a City Connect jersey as of 2023, but to this point, the Cardinals are not among that bunch.
Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III first hinted to fans during the 2023 Winter Warm-Up that the City Connect jerseys would arrive in 2024, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Cardinals are following a relatively new MLB rule dubbed as “four plus one,” which allows for two home and road jerseys, but also another alternative concept. With that in mind, the pure red spring training uniforms appear to be a thing of the past, unless MLB changes its guidelines.
The Cardinals wear a standard home white and a cream jersey for Saturday games while at Busch Stadium. They wear a road gray and a light blue jersey for Saturday games for non-home contests.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals have not yet announced any details as to what the City Connect jerseys might look like, when they might debut, and how many games they could be worn this upcoming season.
