Ethan Salas — Common 59 OVR Catcher Overview
Ethan Salas is a Common 59 OVR Catcher card for the Padres, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats left-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in September 2026.
Ethan Salas grades out at 71 Arm Strength, 70 Fielding, and 56 Speed.
Ethan Salas is eligible at 2 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Catcher (55.3) and Designated Hitter (35.4) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Catcher, at every difficulty. At Catcher the card scores 55.3 on All-Star, 56.6 on Hall of Fame, and 57.0 on Legend — it keeps 103% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Catchers the card ranks #156 on Legend and #176 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Ethan Salas currently buys for about 124 stubs, with sell orders near 5 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 24%. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 104 stubs, about a 1733% return. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Ethan Salas earns an OpScore of 57 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2243 among all cards and #156 among Catchers.
Live Series cards like Ethan Salas'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 Ethan Salas's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Ethan Salas is a 59 OVR Common Catcher for the Padres.
- Is Ethan Salas a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Catchers, Ethan Salas ranks #176 on All-Star, #160 on Hall of Fame, and #156 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 Ethan Salas cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 124 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
Every link below comes from this card's own series, team, rarity, position, or the collections and programs it belongs to.
- Live Series — Padres Live SeriesA collection this card counts toward.
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- Live Series CardsLive Series prices move on real-world performance, so they are the only cards where following actual MLB box scores is a trading edge.
- Live Series CommonsWhen a Common costs meaningfully more than its quick-sell price, a collection or mission is driving it — the card itself is not the reason.
- Diamond RadarWhich cards our model predicts will be upgraded at the next roster update.
