Christian Franklin — Common 63 OVR Left Fielder Overview
Christian Franklin is a Common 63 OVR Left Fielder card for the Orioles, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at Center Fielder and Right Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
Christian Franklin grades out at 78 Speed, 70 Fielding, and 65 Arm Strength.
Christian Franklin is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Center Fielder (57.3), Right Fielder (55.2), Left Fielder (53.8), and Designated Hitter (41.6) on All-Star. The best fit is Center Fielder rather than the listed Left Fielder, and that holds at every difficulty. At Center Fielder the card scores 57.3 on All-Star, 57.4 on Hall of Fame, and 57.3 on Legend — it keeps 100% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Left Fielders the card ranks #159 on All-Star and #178 on Legend.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Christian Franklin currently buys for about 15 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 29%. 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. Christian Franklin earns an OpScore of 53.7 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2492 among all cards and #178 among Left Fielders.
Live Series cards like Christian Franklin'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 Christian Franklin's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Christian Franklin is a 63 OVR Common Left Fielder for the Orioles.
- Is Christian Franklin a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Left Fielders, Christian Franklin ranks #159 on All-Star, #173 on Hall of Fame, and #178 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 Christian Franklin cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 15 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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