Francisco Alvarez

Francisco Alvarez is a Silver 75 OVR Catcher card for the Mets, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

At the plate, Francisco Alvarez's standout tools are 85 Arm Strength. Notable quirks include Fighter.

Francisco Alvarez is eligible at 2 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Catcher (65.7) and Designated Hitter (62.1) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Catcher, at every difficulty. At Catcher the card scores 65.7 on All-Star, 62.5 on Hall of Fame, and 61.8 on Legend — it keeps 94% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Catchers the card ranks #122 on All-Star and #140 on Legend.

On the Diamond Dynasty market, Francisco Alvarez currently buys for about 80 stubs, with sell orders near 50 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 34%. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 20 stubs, about a 39% return. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Francisco Alvarez earns an OpScore of 61.8 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2044 among all cards and #140 among Catchers.

Live Series cards like Francisco Alvarez'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 342 cards it scored 70 or above in its 2 graded updates, 71% were upgraded, against 22% by chance: 3.3× better.