The Legends roster for MLB The Show 22 is adding a Hall of Fame pitcher that played for the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees. MLB The Show 22 teased the newest member earlier this week via Twitter, with the big reveal coming today, as planned.Mike Mussina, who spent 18 years in the MLB —ten with the Orioles and eight with the Yankees— is the newest member of the MLB The Show 22 Legends roster. The Hall of Famer retired in 2008, having played in 537 games, facing 14,593 batters and striking out 2,813 of them.The weekly addition to the Legends roster made headlines in the baseball community this morning with the announcement of Mussina. San Diego Studio is pulling out all the stops with its newest installment of MLB The Show, which hits the market in April, and its Legends roster is not disappointing anyone thus far. Mussina joins a star-studded roster that boasts names from multiple generations, and fans already can't wait to get their hands on the game and start assembling their customized teams to take to the field and compete against others online.
Mussina, who fans gave the nickname "Moose," is not only a Hall of Famer but a five-time MLB All-Star and a seven-time Golden Glove winner. He made his first All-Star Game appearance during the second year of his illustrious career, at the age of 23, and finished fourth in Cy Young voting. In the ten years as a member of the Orioles, Mussina finished top five in Cy Young voting five times and made the All-Star team five times. During that span, he won four Golden Glove awards before moving on to the Yankees in 2001 and winning the award an additional three times. Mussina joins MLB The Show Legend Chase Utley, along with Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau.
While players like David Wells and Roger Clemens were names thrown into the fold due to their popularity during their time in New York, Mussina's accolades make him a worthy addition to MLB The Show 22. The decision to announce him as a member of the Yankees might come off as a controversial decision, as Mussina served more time with the Orioles and achieved more during the ten-year span.
MLB The Show 22 comes to the Switch for the first time, bringing endless possibilities for baseball gamers around the world. Whether players are swinging for the fences with Shohei Ohtani or aiming for a ninth-inning strikeout with Mussina, there will be no shortage of action-packed fun in what is shaping to be one of the greatest baseball games ever created.
MLB The Show 22 releases on April 5 for PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.