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Nick Castellanos
The 106th best first baseman in MLB The Show 26, out of 244 that we rate. He also plays left field and right field.
the worst first baseman in the gamethe best
3,799to buy it2,751sells back for1,048the difference3,750the 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 86.0 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 3,700 and the last 200 sales averaged 3,476 — the asking price is roughly where the card is actually trading. 200 sales, over 3 days.
What he actually does
A balanced solid bat. Poor in the field for a first baseman.
Best at
- Durabilityvery good #489 94
- Plate visionsolid #511 80
- Powersolid #518 82
- Contactsolid #692 85
Worst at
- Fieldingpoor #1,674 50
- Reactionaverage #1,497 58
- Baserunningvery poor #1,521 8
- Arm accuracyaverage #1,526 59
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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