Ildemaro Vargas

Ildemaro Vargas is a Silver 76 OVR Third Baseman card for the Diamondbacks, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He is a switch hitter. He is also eligible at First Baseman, Second Baseman, Shortstop, and Left Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

At the plate, Ildemaro Vargas's standout tools are 97 Vision and 82 Contact.

Ildemaro Vargas is eligible at 6 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Third Baseman (58.4), Second Baseman (58.1), Shortstop (57.6), Left Fielder (56.4), First Baseman (56.2), and Designated Hitter (54.9) on All-Star. Which slot is best depends on how you play — Third Baseman on All-Star, Designated Hitter on Hall of Fame, and Designated Hitter on Legend. At Third Baseman the card scores 58.4 on All-Star, 67.2 on Hall of Fame, and 71.6 on Legend — it keeps 123% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Third Basemans the card ranks #146 on Legend and #168 on All-Star.

On the Diamond Dynasty market, Ildemaro Vargas currently buys for about 130 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has climbed roughly 55%. Its quick-sell value of 75 stubs sits at or above the sell price, making it quick-sell viable. DiamondOps flags the card as currently overpriced.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Ildemaro Vargas earns an OpScore of 71.6 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1663 among all cards and #146 among Third Basemans.

Live Series cards like Ildemaro Vargas'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 358 cards it scored 70 or above in its 3 graded updates, 69% were upgraded, against 17% by chance: 4.1× better.