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Cole Ragans
The 68th best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 673 that we rate.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
6,394to buy it5,000sells back for1,394the difference8,000the game always paysIt is our own score for how good a card is. Rather than trust the number the game prints on the front, it reads the card's actual ratings — power, contact, fielding and the rest — and weighs them the way the game appears to. It runs past 100 because those underlying ratings do.
Where this card's 99.3 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What the market is doingthe asking price, and what it is really selling for
The cheapest listing is 6,791, while the last 200 sales averaged 5,910 (in 4 hours). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 200 sales in 4 hours.
What he actually does
A very good break on the ball, with solid control behind it. He misses bats at a very good rate, and his command is about average. Enough stamina to start and go deep.
Best at
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Staminavery good #43 104
- Avoiding home runsvery good #45 95
- Strikeoutsvery good #69 101
Worst at
Only one rating on this card sits in the weaker half of the game: Velocity at 80. Everything else is at or above the middle, which is most of why it rates where it does.
Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
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What hitters do against him
Holding up
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Our rating reads the card's own ratings and weighs each one the way the game appears to. Nothing is hand-set. Across 1,376 pitchers it lands within 1.22 of a point of the rating the game gives them.
It starts every pitcher at 11.4 and adds the rest from here. How we know
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