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Esmerlyn Valdez
The 24th best right fielder in MLB The Show 26, out of 248 that we rate. He also plays first base and left field.
the worst right fielder 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 101.0 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What he actually does
An elite power bat, with very good contact behind it. The splits matter here: very good power against right-handers and elite against lefties, so he is a different hitter depending on who is pitching. Solid in the field for a right fielder.
Best at
- Clutchelite #39 120
- Powerelite #49 109
- Contactvery good #344 98
- Reactionsolid #385 77
Worst at
- Baserunningvery poor #1,692 3
- Plate visionaverage #966 65
Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
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On the bases
In the field
Small ball and health
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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 1,564 hitters it lands within 0.93 of a point of the rating the game gives them.
It starts every hitter at 17.9 and adds the rest from here. How we know
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