Giancarlo Stanton is body painted on the cover of SI

This week’s Sports Illustrated cover athlete is Giancarlo Stanton, and Stanton is the first athlete to be body painted on the cover. Well then.

This week's national cover: @Marlins slugger @Giancarlo818 is no paint-by-numbers star http://t.co/amCQTykcbw pic.twitter.com/RP7zt5DGep

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 25, 2015

I’ve gotta say – they did a pretty good job with this, right down to the compression sleeve. Maybe we should go ahead and throw Stanton into that “face of baseball” discussion that comes about when people have nothing else to talk about during the offseason.