You are hired to pick the next cover athlete for The Show; however, your mission is to make your choice based solely on which active player has the most eye-catching picture to use on the cover. What player and picture do you use?

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1. Dumper’s ass. Next question

2. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQO4i41XsAAvPQM?format=jpg&name=medium

3. Joe Kelly left us too early

4. Skub hollering, I like when he told fans in Cleveland to shut the fuck up but there are a lot of great choices!

5. Trea Turner sliding is pretty cool

6. [Tim Anderson finally gets on a cover.](https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1985b49/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4443×2499+0+134/resize/1280×720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fec%2Fd3%2F121456054ecabf1337f75a4295c1%2Fap23218061117053.jpg)

7. Choose your Starling Marte thirst trap

8. [Fernando Tatis Jr](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/02/19/sports/19kepner-padres-print1/18kepner-padres-1-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg) EDIT: – nevermind that one WAS already the cover of MLB The Show 21.

9. Anthony Rendon interacting with fans!

10. I’d just do Tito dabbing

11. [We must corner the Korean market ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrfzNFnWgAApjQ1?format=jpg&name=medium)

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13. I’m not sure how well it would work in static image, but I’d like to see Cal Quantrill giving Reese McGuire shit for being caught jerking off in a parking lot on the cover.

14. Justin Turner’s nuts

15. Wild Bill Contreras staring into the dugout hanging up the phone after hitting a massive dong in the NLDS – I’m old and bad at linking pictures 

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17. Torii Hunter’s legs

    https://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2013/10/184578876.jpg?w=720&h=480&crop=1

18. This picture of Mitch Garver: https://www.amazon.com/Stadium-Club-Garver-Minnesota-Baseball/dp/B08HM967MV

19. [search your feelings, you know it to be true](https://imgur.com/a/B2kjWTI)

20. Somebody find me a photo of Ozzie Albies snorkeling in his giant aquarium.

21. Amir Garrett charging and taking on the entire Pirates dugout

22. 

    For people buying the same game every year since 2020.

23. I’ll never not get a little hot ‘n bothered by this pic

24. [The ass that had to be sacrificed to win Game 7.](https://share.google/AlWSaiNzwMuKtwZvs)

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26. 

    I heard we were doing cool slides and I raise you a Javier Baez

27. [Freddie ](https://imgur.com/a/1jtYcGc)https://imgur.com/a/1jtYcGc

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29. [Never skip leg day](https://www.nwahomepage.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2025/04/68000dd5a5ea59.61940629.jpeg?w=1440&h=2560&crop=1)

30. Traumatize 40% of a division

    

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32. Cal Raleigh shirtless would sell a million copies

    [https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2rylc/styles/image_widget_yvgaa1rfdcwf1.png](https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2rylc/styles/image_widget_yvgaa1rfdcwf1.png)

33. 

    A still frame from the great scissoring of 2018

34. Legacy Edition: Munenori Kawasaki in any interview

35. [Josh Naylor](https://file.garden/aNxLr-PPClhZI4VR/GX73bFqXAAA3Rzt.cdb0eb0c.jpeg)

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37. A cover of Jose Ramirez holding a chain with a medallion of Jose Ramirez holding a chain.

38. I use a picture Spencer striders thighs. I actually use this picture for a lot things