Jack Brannigan — Common 56 OVR Shortstop Overview
Jack Brannigan is a Common 56 OVR Shortstop card for the Pirates, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at Second Baseman and Third Baseman. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
Jack Brannigan grades out at 68 Arm Strength, 67 Fielding, and 56 Speed.
Jack Brannigan is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (49.6), Second Baseman (47.7), Third Baseman (46.8), and Designated Hitter (36.0) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 49.6 on All-Star, 49.5 on Hall of Fame, and 49.3 on Legend — it keeps 99% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #198 on All-Star and #204 on Hall of Fame.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Jack Brannigan currently buys for about 14 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 82%. Its quick-sell value of 5 stubs sits at or above the sell price, making it quick-sell viable. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Jack Brannigan earns an OpScore of 49.3 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2860 among all cards and #204 among Shortstops.
Live Series cards like Jack Brannigan'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 Jack Brannigan's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Jack Brannigan is a 56 OVR Common Shortstop for the Pirates.
- Is Jack Brannigan a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Shortstops, Jack Brannigan ranks #198 on All-Star, #204 on Hall of Fame, and #204 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 Jack Brannigan cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 14 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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