Grae Kessinger — Common 55 OVR Shortstop Overview
Grae Kessinger is a Common 55 OVR Shortstop card for the Free Agents, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at First Baseman, Second Baseman, and Third Baseman. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in July 2026.
Grae Kessinger grades out at 68 Fielding, 54 Arm Strength, and 50 Contact.
Grae Kessinger is eligible at 5 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (44.2), Second Baseman (42.3), Third Baseman (41.4), First Baseman (35.5), and Designated Hitter (32.0) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 44.2 on All-Star, 47.0 on Hall of Fame, and 48.3 on Legend — it keeps 109% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #206 on Legend and #208 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Grae Kessinger currently buys for about 8 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 11%. Its quick-sell value of 5 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. Grae Kessinger earns an OpScore of 48.3 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2936 among all cards and #206 among Shortstops.
Live Series cards like Grae Kessinger'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 Grae Kessinger's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Grae Kessinger is a 55 OVR Common Shortstop for the Free Agents.
- Is Grae Kessinger a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Shortstops, Grae Kessinger ranks #208 on All-Star, #207 on Hall of Fame, and #206 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 Grae Kessinger cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 8 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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