As part of MLB and Nike’s three-year City Connect rotation, the Colorado Rockies announced they will introduce a new City Connect design in 2025.

Coming in 2025 👀 New City Connect

This is the final month of the inaugural green and white uniforms. As part of MLB and Nike's three year City Connect cycle, we will be debuting a new City Connect design next season. pic.twitter.com/dYOwbwKLsC

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 13, 2024

Introduced in 2022, the Rockies donned what has been considered one of the best City Connect designs by multiple media pundits and outlets. Fans on the other hand were generally split with the majority agreeing that the design was among the best.

Inspired by the state’s license plate, the design was meant to invoke a sense of the outdoors with the mountain accents and evergreen colors. Originally paired with green pants, the Rockies abandoned the pants in favor of their typical home whites, initially conceived by pitcher Chad Kuhl in 2022.

“This is home. This is our home. Our ‘Rocky Mountain High.'” said the Rockies when first introducing the current City Connect. “A home for the natives, or for those that have only come to call it home. More than a connected city, we are a connected state and region. A constant state of adventure that drives our pride in our present and inspires and fuels our determination towards our future”

Colorado will join its NL West rival Los Angeles Dodgers as the only other club to release a second City Connect uniform. MLB teams are allowed to rotate through four jerseys each season via what Nike has dubbed as a “4+1.” The cycle involves a home, a road and two alternates plus a fifth if they have a City Connect. Any new jersey that gets introduced is required to stay in rotation for at least three seasons.

2024 introduced the remaining slate of City Connect uniforms, with the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics as the only teams refraining from the trend. The Washington Nationals had announced before the season that they would retire their cherry blossom uniforms.

It’s unfortunate to see the Rockies move on from an excellent uniform design but fans in Colorado will wait with eager anticipation for a new design in 2025. The Rockies could choose to follow a recent trend by teams to celebrate the history of baseball in Denver, heralding back to the Denver Bears and Denver Zeyphers as well as the Negro League teams of the 1930s and 40s.

The team could also choose to focus more on the city of Denver itself as opposed to the state-wide design of the current set, perhaps even taking inspiration from local landmarks such as the Red Rocks amphitheater. While the green was a drastic difference from their typical purple coloring, the Rockies could also go with a minimalist approach like the St. Louis Cardinals, simply incorporating current colors with a few alternations.

Whatever the team decides, fans will have to wait until 2025 to see the unveiling of the new kit.