I agree that it looks as if the high numbers were taken with a different backdrop--perhaps the stadium had been improved or expanded before its second Spring Training. That would appear to make the others from 1969, as by the next Spring the uniforms had changed.
Incidentally, card #88 of Miguel Fuentes shows him in the updated uniform, so I googled him. Seems the young man was murdered in January, 1970 at the age of 23, so we know his photo was not from Spring Training of that year. He was a September call-up in 1969, and has the distinction of throwing the final pitch(es) of the 1969 Pilots season--and thus the final pitches ever for the team by that name.
EDITED TO ADD: Okkonen identifies the plainer uniform as what was worn during Spring Training 1969.
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