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2026 All-Star · Blue Jays
Louis Varland
The 33rd best relief pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 859 that we rate.
the worst relief pitcher in the gamethe best
6,733to buy it5,000sells back for1,733the 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 97.6 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 6,669, while the last 200 sales averaged 5,962 (in 26 hours). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 200 sales in 26 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. An inning or two at most — this is a bullpen card.
Best at
- Velocityvery good #1 99
- Avoiding home runsvery good #1 99
- Clutchelite #1 125
- Strikeoutsvery good #47 104
Worst at
- Staminavery poor #1,103 26
- Durabilityaverage #1,058 74
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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