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The Negro Leagues · Free Agents
John Donaldson
The 24th best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 673 that we rate. He also plays first base, left field, centre field and right field.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
319,888to buy it280,100sells back for39,788the 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 103.7 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 299,990 and the last 200 sales averaged 276,491 — the asking price is roughly where the card is actually trading. 200 sales in 6 hours.
What he actually does
A very good velocity, with very good break on the ball 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
- Velocityvery good #1 99
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Avoiding home runsvery good #1 99
- Pitching abilityvery good #16 101
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
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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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