Austin Hays — Bronze 72 OVR Right Fielder Overview
Austin Hays is a Bronze 72 OVR Right Fielder card for the Padres, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at Left Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
At the plate, Austin Hays's standout tools are 86 Arm Strength and 84 Contact. Notable quirks include Situational Hitter.
Austin Hays is eligible at 3 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Right Fielder (60.9), Left Fielder (58.0), and Designated Hitter (52.6) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Right Fielder, at every difficulty. At Right Fielder the card scores 60.9 on All-Star, 65.1 on Hall of Fame, and 67.3 on Legend — it keeps 111% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Right Fielders the card ranks #129 on Legend and #145 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Austin Hays currently buys for about 62 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 61%. Its quick-sell value of 25 stubs sits at or above the sell price, making it quick-sell viable. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Austin Hays earns an OpScore of 67.3 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1618 among all cards and #129 among Right Fielders.
Live Series cards like Austin Hays's are the ones Diamond Radar scores: it reads a player's real MLB production and predicts what the next roster update will do to the card — the predicted rating, the tier jump, and how likely the upgrade is. Ratings only move at a roster update, and not every Live Series card is scored in a given window. Model v11: of the 162 cards it scored 70 or above in its 1 graded update, 72% were upgraded, against 21% by chance: 3.5× better.
Common questions
- What is Austin Hays's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Austin Hays is a 72 OVR Bronze Right Fielder for the Padres.
- Is Austin Hays a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Right Fielders, Austin Hays ranks #145 on All-Star, #132 on Hall of Fame, and #129 on Legend by OpScore — DiamondOps' difficulty-aware rating: it weights the attributes that decide at-bats and recomputes them for each difficulty, whereas in-game Overall is a single number that does not change with the level you play on.
- What quirks does Austin Hays have in MLB The Show 26?
- Austin Hays has 1 quirk: Situational Hitter.
- How much does Austin Hays cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 62 stubs. Prices move constantly on the in-game marketplace — the chart on this page tracks the card's real history rather than a single snapshot.
Where to go next
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