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Nick Selbe

Ranking All 20 MLB City Connect Uniforms From the 2023 Season

It’s been two years since Major League Baseball partnered with Nike to unleash the City Connect uniforms to the baseball public. And, like the very game of baseball itself, there have been some home runs and a few swings and misses along the way. But which styles have stood out above the rest? That’s where we come in.

This season, MLB debuted City Connect uniforms for the Braves, Rangers, Mariners, Reds, Orioles and Pirates, making a grand total of 20 iterations to date. That comprises two-thirds of the league, making this as good a time as any for a definitive ranking of what we’ve seen so far.

Clearly this is a subjective endeavor, but one that weighs factors like design aesthetic, tie-in to a franchise or city’s history, and the differentiation from a team’s usual uniforms. While the entire project has yielded a wide variety of results, it’s nonetheless been an exciting (and often visually stunning or aggravating) storyline to follow over the past few seasons.

For the 10 clubs who have not yet had their City Connect jerseys unveiled—the Guardians, Tigers, Mets, Twins, Cardinals, Yankees, A’s, Phillies, Rays and Blue Jays—a quick apology, your time will come soon enough. With that, let’s get right to it.

Ranking MLB’s City Connect Uniforms

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