Elly De La Cruz

Elly De La Cruz is a Gold 83 OVR Shortstop card for the Reds, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He is a switch hitter. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

At the plate, Elly De La Cruz's standout tools are 92 Arm Strength, 85 Speed, and 84 Contact. His profile leans toward speed and baserunning. Notable quirks include Rally Monkey.

Elly De La Cruz is eligible at 2 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (76.4) and Designated Hitter (70.4) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 76.4 on All-Star, 75.6 on Hall of Fame, and 74.6 on Legend — it keeps 98% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #111 on All-Star and #121 on Legend.

On the Diamond Dynasty market, Elly De La Cruz currently buys for about 1,379 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the price has held roughly steady. Its quick-sell value of 1,200 stubs sits at or above the sell price, making it quick-sell viable. DiamondOps suggests waiting for a better entry point.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Elly De La Cruz earns an OpScore of 74.6 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1212 among all cards and #121 among Shortstops.

Live Series cards like Elly De La Cruz'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).