Old events can feel dusty, but Moonshot still matters if you're checking old cards, stub value, or reward paths. Before spending MLB The Show 26 stubs on Mike Moustakas, it helps to know what this expired program actually gave players.


What Moonshot really asked you to grind


The Moonshot Event Program was not a huge reward ladder, but it wasn't throwaway content either. It expired on May 22, 2026, and the whole thing ran through Event gameplay, not random offline chores. The path had five stops: 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100 Program Points. The big pull was 93 overall Mural Series Mike Moustakas at third base, sitting right at 50 points. So yeah, players could grab the main card without clearing every last objective. The extra rewards were more for grinders who wanted packs and value.



Get to 10 points first, because the path opened with the program's only listed 10,000 XP reward.

Push to 25 points for three standard The Show Packs, which were useful but still luck-based.

Reach 50 points for Mural Series Mike Moustakas, the actual reason most players cared.


The cleanest way to stack mission progress


If you played Moonshot like a normal Event, you'd probably finish it slower than needed. The missions were built around offense: hits, runs, total bases, extra-base hits, homers, wins, Mural Series Parallel XP, and 30,000 total Parallel XP. Homers did the heavy lifting. One swing could count as a hit, a run, four total bases, an extra-base hit, a homer, and PXP progress. That's the kind of overlap you chase. Contact singles helped, sure, but power bats saved time, especially in a mode basically begging you to swing big.



Power hitters were the safest build, since ten homers covered several offensive missions at once.

Mural Series cards mattered because 2,500 Mural Series PXP was its own separate task.

Wins still counted for 15 points, so quitting too much could quietly slow the whole path.


Reality check: If you ignored Parallel XP, the program felt short at first, then suddenly dragged.


Where the reward data gets a bit messy


The 75-point reward was listed as a Deluxe Mural Pack, but the old data doesn't spell out the pack pool, odds, choice rounds, or sell rules. That's a big deal, because players love assuming a named pack means a guaranteed card. It might not. The 100-point stop is even less tidy. One source calls it an Events Rewind Pack, while another only labels it as a bonus reward. I'd treat that as unconfirmed unless you can still verify the archived in-game screen. Old program pages are useful, but they aren't gospel.



Do not treat the 100-point reward name as locked unless the game screen confirms it.

Do not assume the Deluxe Mural Pack guaranteed a specific Mural Series player.

Do not mix this program with the earlier WBC Moonshot path and Brice Turang reward.


What still matters now


Mike Moustakas showed market prices around 43,425 Buy Now and 38,016 Sell Now in scraped data, but old prices age fast. If you're buying, selling, or comparing MLB The Show 26 buy stubs options, check the live marketplace first, because Event demand can vanish overnight.