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2026 Finest · Royals
Michael Wacha
The 22nd best starting pitcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 692 that we rate.
the worst starting pitcher in the gamethe best
16,773to buy it13,009sells back for3,764the 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 111.1 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 31,000, while the last 108 sales averaged 14,091 (in 45 minutes). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 108 sales in 45 minutes.
What he actually does
A very good control, with very good break on the ball behind it. He misses bats at a very good rate, and he will not beat himself with walks. Enough stamina to start and go deep.
Best at
- Breakvery good #1 99
- Controlvery good #1 99
- Avoiding walkselite #11 116
- Pitching abilityvery good #15 104
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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