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Cornerstone · Phillies
Ryan Howard
The 27th best first baseman in MLB The Show 26, out of 244 that we rate.
the worst first baseman 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 97.6 comes from · How the whole thing was built
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What he actually does
An elite power bat, with very good contact behind it. The splits matter here: elite power against right-handers and very good against lefties, so he is a different hitter depending on who is pitching. Slow, and no help on the bases. Solid in the field for a first baseman.
Best at
- Powerelite #61 108
- Durabilityvery good #77 98
- Plate disciplineelite #101 106
- Clutchvery good #388 100
Worst at
- Arm strengthaverage #1,422 60
- Speedpoor #1,315 52
- Baserunningvery poor #1,198 18
- Plate visionaverage #1,002 64
Every ratingthe game's own numbers, where 125 is the ceiling
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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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