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Ted Simmons
The 37th best catcher in MLB The Show 26, out of 245 that we rate. He also plays first base and left field.
the worst catcher in the gamethe best
97,996to buy it83,336sells back for14,660the 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 97.1 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 102,000, while the last 200 sales averaged 90,290 (over 2 days). Paying the asking price here means paying above what the card has been changing hands for. 200 sales, over 2 days.
What he actually does
A contact hitter first — very good contact against solid power. Solid in the field for a catcher.
Best at
- Plate visionvery good #63 103
- Blockingsolid #19 87
- Contactvery good #276 101
- Durabilityvery good #299 96
Worst at
- Baserunningvery poor #1,251 16
- Speedaverage #1,136 58
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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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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