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Nick Gonzales
The 6th best third baseman in MLB The Show 26, out of 196 that we rate. He also plays second base and shortstop.
the worst third baseman in the gamethe best
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 99.5 comes from · How the whole thing was built
George Kell does effectively the same job at third baseman — we rate them 103.3 against this card's 99.5 — and costs 9,950 instead of 55,000. That is 45,050 stubs you could spend somewhere else.
What he actually does
This card is a contact hitter first — 118 contact against 79 power. Real speed at 90, and he will take a base — stealing sits at 12. In the field he grades 70 with a 65 arm — average for a third baseman.
Best at
- Clutchelite #1 125
- Contactelite #11 118
- Plate visionvery good #82 98
- Speedvery good #96 90
Worst at
- Baserunningvery poor #1,218 12
- Base stealingvery poor #1,173 12
- Arm strengthaverage #1,077 65
- Plate disciplineaverage #909 55
Quirks6 on this card
Road WarriorPerforms better when playing on the road
First-Pitch HitterExcels at hitting the first pitch of an at-bat
FighterPerforms better in the 9th inning or later
Bad Ball HitterExcels at hitting balls out of the strike zone
Situational HitterExcels at driving in a runner from third with less than 2 outs
Day PlayerPerforms better when playing day games
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Rafael Devers97 OVR · Milestone
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Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
At the plate
On the bases
In the field
Small ball and health
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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