Amidst Cy Young awards being handed out to the American and National League’s best pitchers, Sony Computer Entertainment have announced their selection for the MLB 12: The Show cover. A prolific first baseman that has enjoyed tremendous success over the past four years, Adrian Gonzalez was a 2011 All-Star, a gold glove recipient, and finished in the top 5 for AL best batting average. Because of these, and many more accolades, SCE has selected Gonzalez to be their cover athlete for MLB 12: The Show.
Joining Gonzalez as spokesman for the game will be series’ icon Joe Mauer (who frequents commercials with Sony’s own VP of Awesome Kevin Butler), fellow teammate Dustin Pedroia, Phillies All-Star Ryan Howard, and Mets third baseman David Wright. But only Gonzalez will get the cover, and he definitely deserves it.
In a sport that has begun to skew more towards the pitcher – just look at The Show’s competition and their perfect game $1 Million contest – The Show tends to favor the hard-hitting field players. That isn’t to say pitchers aren’t an important part of The Show, SCE simply wants to help their franchise standout from its opponent — perhaps being featured on the Vita will do the trick.
Thus far there haven’t been too many details revealed regarding MLB 12: The Show, but with the game’s release not until March of next year (just in time for Spring Training), we expect the real heat to come in 2012. The Show and MLB 2K’s rivalry has long been the most interesting for sports fans considering the two are constantly outdoing each other, and we expect next year’s iterations to be no different.
Video games talk aside, a big congratulation to Adrian Gonzalez on this tremendous achievement, and we can’t wait to play the game he will be representing.
What do you think of Sony Computer Entertainment’s choice of Adrian Gonzalez as the MLB 12: The Show cover athlete? Should Joe Mauer have been the permanent cover athlete for the series?
MLB 12: The Show is slated to release March 6, 2012 for the PS3 and PlayStation Vita.
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Not just because I’m a huge dodger fan or huge baseball fan in general but while Gonzalez is a great player I think there are many other players more worthy of the cover. Mauer is a great player who has had monster years the past two years.
For instance kershaw or kemp. Fielder. All had monster years and deserve the cover. Kershaw has been grey since he came and even won the cy young award today. Why isn’t he on the cover. Kemp had a incredible year finishing in the top of every category. They should have been picked.
Mauer has already been on a cover and he hasn’t had a monster year the last two years. His stats have gotten much worse each year since his first year so these last two monster years you speak of have been nothing but disappointments. Gonzalez had more RBIs this season than Mauer has had in his last two seasons.
And then Prince Fielder. You really want them to put a free agent who is most likely leaving his team on the cover of a game in a Brewers uniform?
I’m tired of this east coast bias. Why would Sony put any Red Sox player on a cover; they just had the biggest choke in MLB history.
I’m still furious over the World Series, with my Rangers choking again, but put someone on there that deserves it. Michael Young…
All I meant was by fielder is that he’s a great player and has been for his time in the majors. And Gonzalez is a good player there’s no doubt bout that but i think there’s other players that had better seasons not just speaking stastically.
“fellow teammate Dustin Pedroia, Phillies All-Star Ryan Howard, and Mets catcher David Wright”
David Wright plays third base…
fixed for you. all is Wright with the world.
Adrian Gonzalez quite on the Red Sox last year and is persona non grata here in Boston now. He’s a loser. Takes no blame for their epic collapse. Eff him.
Kemp?? Really??? He doesn’t even pay attention to the games he’s playing in. Adrian has a better batting average and out hit Kemp this year. Besides, the studio is in San Diego and he’s from San Diego. That might have something to do with it as well. East Coast bias?? Mauer Plays for the Twins right? Personally I’d like to see Ichiro or Carlos Gonzalaz myself.
Jose Bautista
Jose Bautista or Asdrubal Cabrera should have been on the cover. Why Cabrera? Had a “monster” year on both sides of the ball, and it’s cool to have a “small market team” player be on the cover.
Bautista; Toronto Blue Jays, just got new uniforms too. And I like our Canadian brothers of the north.