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50 free MLB the Show trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
MLB The Show has been baseball's flagship video game since 2006, and every winter brings the same debate: who earned the cover? This quiz starts there, with the sluggers, aces and legends who have fronted the box, including regional covers that most fans outside Canada and Taiwan never saw. It also digs into the game itself: how Diamond Dynasty and Road to the Show grew, which modes and features arrived in MLB The Show 16, 17 and 19, who has called the action from the broadcast booth, and when the series finally left its original family of consoles. The questions run from easy wins for anyone who has opened a card pack to deep cuts for players who have bought every edition. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01Which free agent wore a plain white hoodie on the first MLB The Show 19 cover while still without a team?
Bryce Harper
Bryce Harper was unsigned when the cover was revealed in November 2018. The final artwork arrived only after he joined the Philadelphia Phillies the following February.
Q 02Which Los Angeles Angels star was drawn in manga style by Takashi Okazaki for special editions of MLB The Show 22?
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani had just been named the 2021 American League MVP. Okazaki, the creator of Afro Samurai, drew him for the MVP and Digital Deluxe editions.
Q 03Which Seattle Mariners legend, known for wearing his cap backwards, was the cover athlete of MLB The Show 17?
Ken Griffey Jr.
Ken Griffey Jr. had entered the Hall of Fame a year earlier. The game's Hall of Fame Edition came with a New Era hat whose logo figure wears a backwards cap in tribute.
Q 04Which New York Yankees slugger became a two-time cover athlete by fronting MLB The Show 18 and MLB The Show 26?
Aaron Judge
Aaron Judge earned his first cover after hitting 52 home runs as a rookie in 2017. By the time he returned eight years later, he had been named the Yankees' captain.
Q 05MLB The Show 21 ended the series' long PlayStation exclusivity by also launching on which rival console?
Xbox One
Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S owners even got the game through Game Pass at launch. That call was made by Major League Baseball's media arm, not by Sony.
Q 06A commercial for MLB 12: The Show imagined which team winning the World Series four years before it really happened?
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs were shown clinching at Wrigley Field to end a title drought of more than a century. The real 2016 win was sealed on the road in Cleveland.
Q 07Storylines, a documentary-style mode new in MLB The Show 23, devoted its first season to which part of baseball history?
The Negro Leagues
The Negro Leagues season follows eight players, including Satchel Paige and Buck O'Neil. It was built with the museum that preserves the history of those leagues.
Q 08Fictional slugger Reggie Stocker replaced which real star, absent from the players' union license, in MLB 06: The Show?
Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds was not covered by the players' union deal, so the game needed a stand-in. Stocker's name is a money pun on bonds and stocks.
Q 09What is the name of the virtual currency that players earn and spend on cards in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty?
Stubs
Stubs can be earned in any game mode and spent on card packs. Players also use them to buy and sell cards with each other in the Community Market.
Q 10Which Toronto Blue Jays slugger fronted MLB The Show 24, years after his father fronted Sony's MLB 2006?
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and his Hall of Fame father are the first father-son pair to front Sony's baseball games. The elder Guerrero appeared as a Los Angeles Angels star.
Q 11Which Boston Red Sox slugger was the cover athlete of MLB 06: The Show, the first game in the series?
David Ortiz
David Ortiz also starred in the game's humorous TV spots alongside veteran coach Don Zimmer. He had helped Boston win the 2004 World Series.
Q 12Which Minnesota Twins star was the cover athlete of both MLB 10: The Show and MLB 11: The Show?
Joe Mauer
Joe Mauer landed the first of his covers as the reigning American League MVP. MLB 10 even added a catcher mode, matching his position behind the plate.
Q 13The Captain Edition of MLB The Show 23 featured which retired New York Yankees great on its cover?
Derek Jeter
Q 21Which outfielder beat CC Sabathia in a week-long fan vote to become the cover athlete of MLB 13: The Show?
Andrew McCutchen
Andrew McCutchen collected more than 108,000 votes on Twitter and Facebook. The Pittsburgh Pirates star then went out and won the National League MVP award that season.
Q 22Which Detroit Tigers slugger was the cover athlete of MLB 14: The Show, the first edition on PlayStation 4?
Miguel Cabrera
Miguel Cabrera arrived on the cover as a back-to-back American League MVP. In 2012 he had won the first batting Triple Crown since 1967.
Q 23Which Toronto star on MLB The Show 16 was the first player to front both the American and Canadian covers?
Josh Donaldson
Derek Jeter returned a year later, when MLB The Show 24 gave his early Yankees career its own Storylines chapter.
Q 14Which baseball pioneer appeared on special editions of MLB The Show 21 that sent $1 per copy to his foundation?
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson fronted the collector's editions in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The donation applied to every copy of those editions sold in the United States.
Q 15Which Sony-owned developer has made every game in the MLB: The Show series since MLB 06: The Show?
San Diego Studio
San Diego Studio works from the city's Sorrento Valley. Its other credits include High Velocity Bowling and the motion-controlled Sports Champions.
Q 16Which broadcaster was the play-by-play voice of every MLB: The Show game from MLB 06 through MLB The Show 21?
Matt Vasgersian
Matt Vasgersian called the action in sixteen straight editions. He shared the booth with seven different analysts before a new pairing took over in 2022.
Q 17MLB The Show 22 brought the series to which machine for the first time?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch joined the lineup in April 2022, on the same day as the other versions. The handheld edition went without the Stadium Creator, though.
Q 18Which mode, introduced in MLB The Show 19, condenses a team's whole season into only its pivotal games?
March to October
March to October drops players into key situations instead of all 162 games. MLB The Show 22 later stretched the mode across multiple seasons.
Q 19Which young star was the cover athlete of MLB The Show 21, the first edition released beyond PlayStation consoles?
Fernando Tatís Jr.
Fernando Tatís Jr. was 22 when he got the cover, two years after his big-league debut. His father, Fernando Sr., also played in the majors.
Q 20MLB The Show 20 was the first in the series to feature the real names and likenesses of players from where?
The minor leagues
The minor leagues had always been filled with generic stand-ins. The real prospects arrived through a partnership with Scott Spindler and his Ridin Rosters group.
Josh Donaldson had just been voted the 2015 American League MVP in his first season with the Blue Jays. Earlier Canadian editions had always used a different player.
Q 24Which infielder nicknamed El Mago fronted MLB The Show 20, the last edition exclusive to PlayStation consoles?
Javier Báez
Javier Báez, who was born in Puerto Rico, chose the nickname, Spanish for the magician, for his Players Weekend jerseys in 2017 and 2018.
Q 25Which Miami Marlins infielder, born in the Bahamas, was the cover athlete of MLB The Show 23?
Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. grew up in Nassau and debuted in the majors in 2020. No Marlins player had fronted the main edition before him.
Q 26Which Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher shared the MLB The Show 25 cover with Elly De La Cruz and Gunnar Henderson?
Paul Skenes
Paul Skenes had just been named National League Rookie of the Year, a season after the Pirates drafted him first overall.
Q 27Which Diamond Dynasty mode, added in MLB The Show 16, sends a squad against all 30 MLB teams and their strongholds?
Conquest
Conquest plays out on a map of North America, where every captured territory is filled with fans. Rival clubs fight back, so strongholds have to be defended too.
Q 28Which Diamond Dynasty mode, new in MLB The Show 16, starts with a 25-round draft before a double-elimination run?
Battle Royale
Battle Royale hands everyone a freshly drafted squad, so a player's own card collection counts for nothing. Two losses end the run.
Q 29Which MLB The Show 16 feature puts clutch at-bats and key defensive plays into slow motion?
ShowTime
ShowTime arrived alongside a wider default batting camera called Fish Eye, which shows where every infielder is standing.
Q 30MLB 06: The Show took the subtitle that still names the series from which feature of that first game?
Career mode
Career mode was simply called The Show in 2006, and players guided one created prospect toward the big leagues. It became Road to the Show a year later.