Red Sox 2025 MLB City Connect Uniforms 'Will Be Controversial,' CEO Sam Kennedy Says
Boston Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy provided a hint on the team's mysterious City Connect jerseys for the 2025 season, suggesting that they would indeed be green, as rumored, in honor of the famous Green Monster outfield wall.
"I can tell you that they will be controversial," he said on MassLive's Fenway Rundown show. "And I think you're on the right track in terms of the color scheme that you mentioned. There might be a theme with a certain wall in left field."
Kennedy also suggested that the uniforms were more aimed at appeasing younger fans and not necessarily the older generations of Red Sox supporters.
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"I always have to remind people like my dad and others, these uniforms are not for you," he said. "They are for the players and for the next generation of fans."
Boston's first City Connect uniforms were yellow and blue, in honor of the Boston Marathon, and Kennedy acknowledged that "nothing can be more controversial than bright yellow," though the uniform's popular.
As for when we'll see Boston's "controversial" new unis, Mac Cerullo of the Boston Herald reported Tuesday that the Red Sox "plan to unveil their new City Connect uniform in May, a club spokesperson confirmed this week. The club did not provide a specific release date but indicated that more details will be provided as the day gets closer."
Cerullo also noted that the Red Sox weren't retiring their yellow and blue City Connects and instead will be saying goodby
