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Max Scherzer
The 461st best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 689 that we rate.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
12the game always paysNobody currently has both a buy order and a listing on this card, so there is no honest price to quote.
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 69.6 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 85, while the last 200 sales averaged 62 (over 3 days). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 200 sales, over 3 days.
What he actually does
An average velocity, with average break on the ball behind it. He misses bats at an average rate, and the free passes are a real risk. Stamina puts him between a starter and a long reliever.
Best at
- Staminasolid #454 75
- Controlaverage #581 67
- Avoiding walksaverage #601 68
Worst at
- Clutchpoor #1,408 44
- Durabilityaverage #1,324 68
- Avoiding home runspoor #1,259 50
- Velocityaverage #1,229 71
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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