24 Cover Athlete Reveal
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Okay. Thank you.
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I'm sitting here playing the Cardinals, and there is a yellow stripe under their team name on the front of their away jerseys. What if the legend is Pujols? That would match the red/gold bat. Wouldn't that would be cool? On the other hand, the Braves have all three colors in their uniform, so Albies is still the majority pick.
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@palmerjones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJl_MLEgA8
He figured out that it's Ozzie Albies!!!
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The said it’ll be a wild ride so they are obviously bringing back The Wild Horse aka Yasiel Puig with new legend The Wild Thing aka Mitch Williams as the legend cover.
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@AllRise99 said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
@palmerjones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJl_MLEgA8
He figured out that it's Ozzie Albies!!!
I'd say he nailed it! Nice detective work.
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@Blind_Bleeder said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
I'm sitting here playing the Cardinals, and there is a yellow stripe under their team name on the front of their away jerseys. What if the legend is Pujols? That would match the red/gold bat. Wouldn't that would be cool? On the other hand, the Braves have all three colors in their uniform, so Albies is still the majority pick.
Doubtful, as much as I would like it to be so.
I was just curious so I looked up all the past covers going all the way back to the previous game incarnation (MLB 98) to see who has and has not gotten covers (just the regular edition covers). This has no bearing on who might be the cover this year but I found it interesting
Has not gotten a Cover
- Arizona Diamondbacks
- Chicago White Sox
- Cincinnati Reds
- Cleveland Guardians
- Colorado Rockies
- Houston Astros
- Kansas City Royals
- Milwaukee Brewers
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Tampa Bay Rays
- Texas Rangers
- Washington Nationals
Teams with one cover
- Baltimore Orioles
- Chicago Cubs
- Detroit Tigers
- Miami Marlins
- Minnesota Twins (two if you count Mauers back to back years)
- New York Mets
- Oakland Athletics
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- San Diego Padres
- San Francisco Giants
- Seattle Mariners
- Toronto Blue Jays
Teams with 2 covers
- Atlanta Braves
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- New York Yankees
- Philadelphia Phillies
Teams with 3 covers
- Boston Red Sox
- Los Angeles Angels
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@Dolenz said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
@Blind_Bleeder said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
I'm sitting here playing the Cardinals, and there is a yellow stripe under their team name on the front of their away jerseys. What if the legend is Pujols? That would match the red/gold bat. Wouldn't that would be cool? On the other hand, the Braves have all three colors in their uniform, so Albies is still the majority pick.
Doubtful, as much as I would like it to be so.
I was just curious so I looked up all the past covers going all the way back to the previous game incarnation (MLB 98) to see who has and has not gotten covers (just the regular edition covers). This has no bearing on who might be the cover this year but I found it interesting
That is fascinating! If Albies is the cover, it will throw the Braves in with the Red Sox and Angels.
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@Dolenz Great list
For fun I'll include 2k & EA covers as well (dates back to 1997, no alternate covers included)
Has not gotten a Cover
Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati Reds
Cleveland Guardians
Colorado Rockies
Houston Astros
Kansas City Royals
Milwaukee Brewers
Texas Rangers
Washington NationalsTeams with one cover
Miami Marlins
Pittsburgh Pirates
Tampa Bay Rays
Toronto Blue JaysTeams with 2 covers
Arizona Diamondbacks
Atlanta Braves
Baltimore Orioles
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Dodgers
Minnesota Twins (Mauer x2)
Oakland Athletics
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
Seattle Mariners
St. Louis CardinalsTeams with 3 covers
Los Angeles Angels
New York Mets
Philadelphia PhilliesTeams with 5 covers
Boston Red Sox (5)
Teams with 5+ covers
New York Yankees (8) [Giambi x3, Jeter x3]
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@AfterShockGamer said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
Has not gotten a Cover
Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati Reds
Cleveland Guardians
Colorado Rockies
Houston Astros
Kansas City Royals
Milwaukee Brewers
Texas Rangers
Washington NationalsWhat is even more interesting is that in the years that these games have been made, 7 of those 9 teams have actually won the World Series, a couple of them more than once, and they still could not manage a cover.
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I can think of several players from those teams that are worthy of a cover.
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@Blind_Bleeder
Agreed, lots of options like Big Hurt, Helton, Altuve, Prince Fielder, Votto, Scherzer
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@AfterShockGamer said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
@Blind_Bleeder
Agreed, lots of options like Big Hurt, Helton, Altuve, Prince Fielder, Votto, Scherzer
Pujols.
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First Astros game back in 1973 for me, but with the unfortunate recent events ('17) involving my team I really do not think a lot of people want to see any Astros anytime soon on the cover.
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@MrDeweyCoXX going back to the Astros incident, what do you think about Altuve?
You believe he had a tattoo, or was cheating with the buzzer.
If he actually did, I find that comical.
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@Dolenz Great point he was on MVP Baseball 04, Backyard Baseball 07 & The Bigs covers though
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@AfterShockGamer
I'm locked in on seeing which teams truly haven't been represented & which player has been on the most. So I looked at every console game with an MLBPA/ MLB license (RBI Baseball, The Bigs, Backyard Baseball, etc. Alternate covers still not included)
Has not gotten a Cover
Cincinnati Reds
Kansas City RoyalsTeams with one cover
Cleveland Guardians
Colorado Rockies
Miami Marlins
Pittsburgh Pirates
Tampa Bay Rays
Texas Rangers
Toronto Blue Jays
Washington Nationals* [Guerrero— Expos]Teams with 2 covers
Baltimore Orioles
Chicago White Sox
Houston Astros
Milwaukee Brewers
Minnesota Twins [Mauer x2]
Oakland Athletics
San Francisco Giants
Seattle MarinersTeams with 3 covers
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
San Diego PadresTeams with 4 covers
Arizona Diamondbacks [Schilling x2]
Atlanta Braves
New York Mets [Piazza x2]Teams with 5 covers
Los Angeles Angels [Guerrero x2]
Chicago Cubs [Sosa x3]Teams with 5+ covers
St. Louis Cardinals (6) [Pujols x 5]
Boston Red Sox (10) [Ortiz x4, Ramirez x2]
New York Yankees (15) [Jeter x8, Giambi x4]Bonus: Some games had pictures featuring team logos on obscured players including:
- LJN MLB: SD, SF, STL, CHC
- Nicktoons MLB: NYY, DET, ATL, STL, LAD, PHI
- RBI 14: LAD, OAK, ATL, BOS, STL, DET, PIT
- Wii Superstars: STL, NYM, MIL, CLE, ATL, TEX
Player Specific Games:: These games had player on the cover but no team logo
- Mike Piazza
- Frank Thomas
- Tommy Lasorda
- Sammy Sosa
- Cal Ripken, Jr
- Rodger Clemens
- Reggie Jackson
- Earl Weaver
- Pete Rose
- Chris Berman— ESPN
- Ken Griffey Jr (4)
Going through all the console games covers showed me
- You'll find alot of Griffey Jr, Jeter, Pujols & Jason Giambi
- Factoring in Rose representing CIN & if you count the Expos & Nationals as the same team— Kansas City Royals fans, YOU HAVE ZERO cover athlete representatives across over 30 years of console MLB games
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Instead of 1 or 2 current Major Leaguers they should keep it one current and one past star like last year.
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@rageincage007 said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
Instead of 1 or 2 current Major Leaguers they should keep it one current and one past star like last year.
MLB22 only had Ohtani. MLB20 only had Baez. It’s possible MLB24 only has one player on both covers.
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@fubar2k7 said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
@rageincage007 said in 24 Cover Athlete Reveal:
Instead of 1 or 2 current Major Leaguers they should keep it one current and one past star like last year.
MLB22 only had Ohtani. MLB20 only had Baez. It’s possible MLB24 only has one player on both covers.
It seems to me that the second cover adds something to the game. Like Jeter added the captain card because he's the captain or there being 42 special "42" cards to represent Jackie Robinson. With Ohtani, the two way player was added, so no secondary cover was needed.
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While you’re tabulating all these cover athletes add in the 6 Toronto Blue Jays for Canadian versions of the game from 2012-2017, Jose Bautista got it twice. The Padres, Rangers x2, Pirates and Orioles from the Korean versions from 2006, 2014-2017. Shin-Soo Choo got it twice for Texas. And the Orioles 3 times and Marlins 2 times all for Wei-Yin Chen for the Taiwan covers. Since your tagging in random games and all.
I think you forgot World Series Baseball. Another random game but one with the MLB license.
Dodgers
Giants
Indians
Braves x2
Red Sox
Yankees x3
