FAKE! Derek Jeter as MLB The Show 2022 Deluxe Edition Cover May Be a Hoax

A good example of ‘too good to be true’ is the Derek Jeter cover for the MLB’s official video game. “The Show 2022” featuring Jeter appears to be a fan creation. What seemed like sheer planning and perfect execution on part of the video game company will now be looked at as a contrived sequence of events that fans fell prey to.

MLB announced its cover athlete for The Show 2022 on Monday to be Shohei Ohtani. On the back of his stellar 2021 unanimous AL MVP season, we would have expected nothing less. But quickly, the rumors of another cover began to make the round for a fortuitous release. Featuring New York Yankees Legend, Derek Jeter, sporting the #2 jersey on the cover, fans bought into the cover to be released on February 2nd, 2022, all for naught.

However, a Twitter user quickly came to clarify that the cover was a mere fan creation and that no such release had actually been planned. It was only to be a prospective cover for fans to get hyped about.

This has been a prank, there’s the camera

The Twitter user quickly took to the site to inform fans about it being a fan-created piece. However, given that the inclusion of Derek Jeter into the game again was something so eagerly anticipated, the fans seem to buy into the hype right away.

The user went on to keep the hopes of ‘Bronx Bombers’ fans though. The cover could still potentially feature Jeter, just that this one isn’t the original cover.

But he must have caused some jitters at Nintendo, who were allegedly responsible for the leak in the first place. Imagine their surprise when they were being blamed for leaking a cover they don’t even have access to.

The editor of the image finally came through and set the record straight, revealing that it was indeed him who had carried out the edit in the first place.

And while we apologize to the Yankees fans for causing the false hype, we still hold out hope. We could be in this for a double fake-out, with the cover actually featuring Jeter and the release actually being set for 2/2/2022. We should know soon enough. But until that point, fingers crossed.

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