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MLB The Show 25 Cover Athlete Reveal Confirms Series First

For the first time in series history, three MLB The Show 25 cover athletes will
MLB The Show 25 Cover Athlete Reveal Confirms Series First
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After some teasers, the official MLB The Show 25 cover reveal has arrived and confirmed a franchise first. While there have been past MLB The Show installments with alternate covers and international cover athletes, MLB The Show 25 will be the first to put three different players on the same cover. Three young stars making their mark on the league will share the honor of being an MLB The Show 25 cover athlete.

Three MLB The Show 25 Cover Athletes Revealed

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Yesterday, fans started buzzing when an Instagram video dropped of Elly De La Cruz announcing himself as MLB The Show 25 cover athlete. A few hours later, Baltimore Orioles star Gunnar Henderson dropped his own Instagram video claiming he was actually supposed to be on the cover. Soon after, Paul Skenes capped off the chaos with his own video claiming he would be taking the cover of MLB The Show 25.

With today's official reveal by Sony San Diego, it has now been confirmed that the standard edition of MLB The Show 25 will feature Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds, and Gunnar Henderson of the Baltimore Orioles. The MLB The Show franchise dates back as far as 1996, and they've never chosen multiple athletes for the primary cover.

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International editions of the game in the mid-2010s featured alternate cover athletes in Canada, Korea, and Taiwan, but none of those were combination covers. Special edition covers have featured Jackie Robinson and Derek Jeter, in both cases functioning as alternate covers. The closest example (seen above) would be last year's MLB The Show 24 Negro Leagues Edition, as that cover art shows several players to represent the many barrier breakers of the Negro Leagues era.

While the series that preceded this one stretches their history back a bit further, MLB The Show 25 celebrates the 20th anniversary of MLB The Show. The thread of this series goes back to MLB Pennant Race in 1996 and the follow-up series starting with MLB 98 (in 1997) that continued until MLB 2006 (in 2005), and a web of mergers and acquisitions links today's Sony San Diego Studio to the original release by Sony Interactive Studios America and the 989 Sports/989 Studios era.

MLB 06: The Show began the current era, and it also made the correct choice of aligning the release year with the naming scheme. For series like Madden and NBA 2K, the slightly off numbering scheme is more logical since their real-world seasons stretch from one year into the next. The MLB The Show 25 release date is set for March 18, 2025 with Early Access as soon as March 14, but no other details on game modes or new features have been revealed so far.