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St. Patrick's Day · Red Sox
Wade Boggs
The 83rd best third baseman in MLB The Show 26, out of 224 that we rate. He also plays first base.
the worst third baseman in the gamethe best
9,995to buy it5,462sells back for4,533the difference5,500the 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 88.8 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 9,700 and the last 200 sales averaged 8,779 — the asking price is roughly where the card is actually trading. 200 sales in 23 hours.
What he actually does
A contact hitter first — elite contact against average power. Slow, and no help on the bases. Solid in the field for a third baseman.
Best at
- Plate visionvery good #178 95
- Contactelite #188 105
- Plate disciplinevery good #205 97
- Clutchvery good #388 100
Worst at
- Speedpoor #1,467 46
- Baserunningvery poor #1,389 12
- Arm strengthaverage #1,028 68
- Poweraverage #935 63
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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