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Jake Arrieta
The best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 673 that we rate.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
26,999to buy it19,000sells back for7,999the 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 111.0 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 26,450, while the last 200 sales averaged 22,260 (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 velocity, with very good control 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
- Velocityvery good #1 99
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Pitching abilityelite #1 106
- Clutchelite #1 125
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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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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