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Mark McGwire
The 8th best first baseman in MLB The Show 26, out of 266 that we rate.
the worst first baseman in the gamethe best
20,980to buy it17,000sells back for3,980the 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 108.8 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What he actually does
A balanced elite bat. Slow, and no help on the bases. Solid in the field for a first baseman.
Best at
- Powerelite #1 125
- Plate disciplineelite #1 125
- Contactelite #124 114
- Durabilityvery good #192 97
Worst at
- Arm accuracypoor #1,848 49
- Reactionpoor #1,712 52
- Arm strengthaverage #1,600 57
- Speedpoor #1,412 51
Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
At the plate
On the bases
In the field
Small ball and health
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Same position, and we rate them within two points of this card.
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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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