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2026 All-Star · Royals
Michael Wacha
The 102nd best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 673 that we rate.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
There is no price because this card never reaches the marketplace — it can only be earned. Holding it costs you nothing, because you could not sell it if you wanted to.
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 97.3 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What he actually does
A very good break on the ball, with very good velocity behind it. He misses bats at a solid rate, and his command is about average. Enough stamina to start and go deep.
Best at
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Staminaelite #37 105
- Pitching abilityvery good #80 96
- Controlsolid #127 87
Worst at
Only one rating on this card sits in the weaker half of the game: Durability at 54. Everything else is at or above the middle, which is most of why it rates where it does.
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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