Former players you never see in the game

Each year, new legends are added to MLB The Show and are a hot topic within the gaming community. Diamond Dynasty Mode and MLB The Show’s awesome offline roster features new additions to the Legends and most of the players we keep every year.

This layer of the game adds an undeniable spice to the playing experience. The game already has quite a few legends, but there are still some notable omissions that some fans hope will be added in 2023 and beyond. but for others it is forever closed.

Let’s look at two categories, starting with those who still have hope.

Doors still open for players navigating the effects of the PED era

Despite what some believe, being in a vacuum with performance-enhancing drugs doesn’t automatically disqualify you from appearing as a legend on MLB The Show. Five of his players whose names appeared in the infamous Mitchell Report (an independent investigative report to his commissioner of baseball on the illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by Major League Baseball players) are MLB The Show. It was a playable legend at 22.

• David Justice
• Brian Roberts
• Eric Gagne
• Gary Sheffield
• Jason Giambi

Additionally, former Los Angeles Angels and Toronto Blue Jays slugger Troy Glause reportedly received a PED from a pharmacy. In his book, recent Hall of Famer Mike Piazza admitted to using androstenedione before baseball banned it.

Grouse and Piazza were both on MLB The Show 22.

Please note that not all players mentioned in the Mitchell Report were found to have used PED or been penalized for association. However, inclusion in reports and/or stories from credible media outlets at least complicates the legacy of the players mentioned.

Despite the question, Sony agreed to include the aforementioned player’s likeness in the game. Frankly, my observation was that the MLB The Show community welcomed their participation. The Justice, Piazza, Sheffield and Glaus cards were very popular in last year’s game.

At the time of publication, Glaus’ 95-0verall prime card was equivalent to Level 2 (representing community usage on a 5-level scale) by over 22,000 users. Glaus also has a total of 99 cards with over 18,000 Level 1 users.

Overall, Justice had 93 2nd Half Heroes cards with over 115,000 Level 2 users. Finest Sheffield, ranked 99th overall, had over 21,000 Level 1 users.

For this reason, it’s no surprise that most MLB The Show fans would love to see the walls come down between other missing legends whose legacy has been tainted by PED fact and fiction. .

While fans don’t seem to approve of the use of PEDs, there are many who would love to have some of the greatest players in the history of the sport in their games. If asked to vote for the inclusion of legends such as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGuire, Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, and Alex Rodriguez, the results of the votes among the game’s community It will be interesting to see.

I would be shocked if all of them weren’t voted on by the community by Landslide.

Obviously, this is a little more complicated than a simple fan vote. Still, I think it’s possible that all these players could be added at some point.

Don’t expect Pete Rose and others to be added to MLB The Show

There are four players who are in the Hall of Fame, or at least have the on-field achievements needed to be in the Hall of Fame, but most of them don’t make it to MLB The Show.

Eddie Collins was one of the greatest players of his generation. He won his six World Series championships, and in 1914 he won MVP and led the league with 14 stolen bases. Collins was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939.

However, Collins’ shield was removed from Fenway Park (where he was a star of the Boston Red Sox) due to multiple accusations of racism. He became an executive of the Sox organization and is widely believed to have resisted the integration of professional baseball.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Charles P. Pierce, there was a “powerful faction” who “believed” heckled black players from his “executive perch” when Collins was trying to challenge the Red Sox, and “those n### Drop ##,” he shouted. field. “Jackie Robinson was one of his three tryouts for the Red Sox that day. Needless to say, Sony has no plans to add Collins to the show.

Unfortunately, the same can be said for fellow Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker. Cobb has the second-most hits in baseball history (4,189). He won 12 batting titles and league MVP. Speaker also won MVP and his three World batting titles in his series. He retired with 3,514 hits.

Cobb and Speaker are arguably one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, but the clouds that come from accusations of racism and prejudice, at least for game publishers on the level of Sony San Diego Studios, have both men on their hands. Make it unbeatable.

The allegations against Cobb (Glenn Miller of the Naples Herald wrote about “The Strange Case of Ty Cobb” in 2015) have been challenged. Anthony Castrobins of MLB.com wrote that Cobb’s legacy is based on a “false narrative”.

The Speaker doesn’t seem to have much backlash for the negative aspects of his legacy.According to Joe Posnanski of The Athletic, the Speaker has been called a member of the Ku Klux Klan. He is believed to have bet on baseball and he even pitched a game.

Pete Rose, the all-time hitter in baseball history, is last on this list. He had a historic career, breaking Cobb’s record before his retirement. However, Rose was eventually banned from baseball due to suspicion of gambling in sports.

The gambling allegations may be enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame and MLB The Show forever, but the allegations of a sexual relationship with an underage girl could close the door for good.

According to court documents released in 2017, Rose admitted to having sex with a girl, but didn’t admit it until 1975, when she was 16.

Ultimately, the revenue generated from the mighty Diamond Dynasty Card and microtransactions is not worth associating with some of the ugliest aspects of our society.

These are the kinds of issues that publishers have to deal with when including likenesses of real people. Sometimes things go off track.