The baseball hot stove took a long time to warm up this winter, as two of the sport’s free agents, Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, were unsigned through the start of spring training. It put Sony’s MLB The Show ’19 in an awkward position. Harper was already set as the cover athlete but he didn’t have a team uniform to wear. The plan was to sell the game with Harper wearing a generic hoodie.
That has changed now that Harper has signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. Yesterday, Harper inked a 13-year, $330 million deal that will keep him in the NL East, terrorizing his former club for more than a decade. Sony acted quickly, getting the official cover to the public with Harper in red pinstripes.
Source: Destructoid Sony confirms Bryce Harper’s Phillies cover will be in stores when MLB The Show ’19 launches