Happy Laundry Day to everyone except Chase Utley. I hope he spends the rest of his life scrubbing grass stains out of his pants.
We’ve made it to March, which means we’re one step closer to real baseball being played.
The Mets are a week into their Grapefruit League season, and we’ve had the opportunity to see some of our new threads in action. While the new alternate blue road jersey has been the constant this spring, we’ve seen it paired with two different pairs of pants.
At Clover Park, the Mets have been wearing their classic pinstriped white home pants with blue jersey. They’ve been matching the same blue jersey with the updated gray away pants on the road. I think the initial concern about the blue jersey was the fact that the piping on the top wouldn’t match the piping on last year’s away pants. Since the road gray pants have also been updated, both pieces of this uniform match with a blue-orange-blue piping.
The blue top/gray bottom is my favorite of the two combinations, which makes sense because this is what we will see as the alternate road uniform in the 2025 season.
Congratulations to Pete Alonso for winning our inaugural Stain of the Week award. This prestigious award is given out to the player who's messy uniform would give any mother a headache. Pete earned this beauty while legging out a double in the bottom of the 7th against the Washington Nationals (Friday, February 28th).
We all know ballplayers are superstitious. But sometimes, I think the fans are even worse. When Steve Cohen announced the Mets would be be bringing the black uniforms back in 2021, there was a lot of talk about the Mets’ poor performance wearing these home alternates.
This new segment will track the performance of the Metropolitans in each uniform in the team’s rotation. Maybe it’ll ease your superstitiousness, maybe it’ll help you win a few more parlays, maybe I’ll forget to keep track by the end of April and Laundry Lines will disappear altogether. Only time will tell.
If anyone wants to contribute to this silly project, let me know! I’d love some graphics to put here to represent each of the uniform combinations.
Current Records (Updated 3/1/2025)
Records By Article of Clothing
⚾ Spring Training Hat: 4-4-1
🔵 Alternate Blue Jersey: 4-4-1
🏟️ Home Pants: 3-0-1
✈️ Road Pants: 1-4-1
Finally, shout out to Brett Baty! My man is having a killer start to Spring Training. I know he’s had good spring trainings before, I know his performance at AAA has been incredible compared to the Major League level. You know what? It’s spring and I’m ready to believe again. Here’s some Mets Laundry for ya.
I got this shirsey at Maimonides Park in Brooklyn when Baty was playing there in 2019. Hopefully he gives me a reason to upgrade to a #7 Mets jersey this year, because this one is looking ratty as hell.
