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The Negro Leagues · Free Agents
Cool Papa Bell
The 355th best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 687 that we rate. He also plays first base, left field, centre field and right field.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
There is no price because this card never reaches the marketplace — it can only be earned. Holding it costs you nothing, because you could not sell it if you wanted to.
It 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 78.5 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What he actually does
A solid break on the ball, with solid control behind it. He misses bats at an average rate, and his command is about average. Enough stamina to start and go deep.
Best at
- Durabilityvery good #40 90
- Staminavery good #251 90
- Controlsolid #259 80
- Avoiding walkssolid #297 80
Worst at
- Velocityaverage #1,275 70
- Strikeoutsaverage #989 57
- Breaksolid #903 84
- Avoiding home runsaverage #823 64
Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
Stuff
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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