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The Negro Leagues · Free Agents
Cool Papa Bell
The 69th 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
121,750to buy it91,120sells back for30,630the 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 102.7 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 115,000, while the last 23 sales averaged 83,932 (in 36 minutes). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 23 sales in 36 minutes.
What he actually does
A very good control, with very good break on the ball behind it. He misses bats at a very good rate, and he will not beat himself with walks. Enough stamina to start and go deep.
Best at
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Controlvery good #1 99
- Avoiding walksvery good #43 102
- Staminaelite #55 106
Worst at
No rating that matters for this card sits in the weaker half of the game.
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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