Buddy Kennedy — Common 63 OVR Third Baseman Overview
Buddy Kennedy is a Common 63 OVR Third Baseman card for the Giants, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at First Baseman and Second Baseman. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in June 2026.
Buddy Kennedy grades out at 78 Speed, 67 Fielding, and 56 Discipline.
Buddy Kennedy is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Second Baseman (54.6), Third Baseman (54.5), First Baseman (46.5), and Designated Hitter (43.7) on All-Star. Which slot is best depends on how you play — Second Baseman on All-Star, Third Baseman on Hall of Fame, and Third Baseman on Legend. At Second Baseman the card scores 54.6 on All-Star, 56.2 on Hall of Fame, and 56.9 on Legend — it keeps 104% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Third Basemans the card ranks #146 on Hall of Fame and #148 on Legend.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Buddy Kennedy currently buys for about 18 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 81%. Its quick-sell value of 5 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. Buddy Kennedy earns an OpScore of 57.1 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2178 among all cards and #148 among Third Basemans.
Live Series cards like Buddy Kennedy'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. Across the season so far, 55% of the cards Radar flags go on to be upgraded, against a 26% background rate across all scored cards — 2.1× better than chance (n=1,061).
Common questions
- What is Buddy Kennedy's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Buddy Kennedy is a 63 OVR Common Third Baseman for the Giants.
- Is Buddy Kennedy a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Third Basemans, Buddy Kennedy ranks #147 on All-Star, #146 on Hall of Fame, and #148 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.
- How much does Buddy Kennedy cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 18 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.
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