Your thoughts on Who do you think is going to be the next cover athlete for MLB The Show 25
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It should definitely be Bobby Witt Jr. The best player on his team, a team that made a historic recovery from the season before. Not to mention finishing in 2nd for AL MVP and sweeping the awards for a shortstop and a 3rd consecutive 30-30 season. Maybe I'm a bit bias since I am a Royals fan but all of those accolades in just 3 seasons is deserving imo
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@tgBeezy_XBL how do you have Henderson over Witt?
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@Big-Gar8990_XBL said in Your thoughts on Who do you think is going to be the next cover athlete for MLB The Show 25:
It should definitely be Bobby Witt Jr
The problem is that is less about who is deserving and more about who is marketable and will be recognized by the majority of potential purchasers. I'd argue that as good as he is many would not recognize Witt Jr if he were on the cover.
If it was about players deserving it then they should just give it to a MVP or CY Young winner every year. But we did not get an Acuna Jr, Goldschmidt, Abreu, Freeman, Bellinger or Trout when they won their awards in the last 5 years. Other than Shohei I don't believe they have ever gone with a pitcher.
Also, in the last 10 years (since MLB 15) a player from a central division team has been on the cover once.
Personally, I don't care who they choose, since I know it won't be a Cardinal, as long as they don't make the cover art too obnoxious (I'm looking at you MLB 23)
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And just because I like looking at data occasionally here are all the teams that have had covers dating all the way back the Playstation 1 and MLB 98
Total of 28 covers
Have Had 3 Cover Athletes
- Boston Red Sox (Ortiz, Pedroia, González)
- Los Angeles Angels (Vaughn, Guerrero, Ohtani)
Has Had 2 Cover Athletes
- Atlanta Braves (The Jones' - Chipper and Andruw)
- Los Angeles Dodgers (Green and Puig)
- Minnesota Twins (Joe Mauer in back to back years)
- New York Yankees (Williams and Judge)
- Philadelphia Phillies (Howard and Harper)
- Toronto Blue Jays (Donaldson and Guerrero Jr)
Has Had 1 Cover Athlete
- Baltimore Orioles (Ripkin Jr)
- Chicago Cubs (Baez)
- Detroit Tigers (Cabrera)
- Miami Marlins (Chisholm Jr)
- New York Mets (Wright)
- Oakland Athletics (Chavez)
- Pittsburgh Pirates (McCutchen)
- San Diego Padres (Tatis Jr)
- San Francisco Giants (Bonds)
- Seattle Mariners (Griffey Jr)
No Cover Athletes
- 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
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WHY NO SHOHEI OHTANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@CADM0NST3R50_PSN said in Your thoughts on Who do you think is going to be the next cover athlete for MLB The Show 25:
WHY NO SHOHEI OHTANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um, because he was just on the cover in 22.
Other than a weird time when they put Joe Mauer on the cover 2 years in a row they have not repeated a player. If they were going to do that then it would probably be Judge or Ohtani but I would not hold my breath.
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I see many times on internet Elly covers so i think it will be him
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D Dolenz64_XBL referenced this topic
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How about LINSANITY?!
