Jacob Melton

Jacob Melton is a Bronze 68 OVR Left Fielder card for the Rays, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats left-handed. He is also eligible at Center Fielder and Right Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

At the plate, Jacob Melton's standout tools are 83 Speed.

Jacob Melton is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Center Fielder (61.2), Right Fielder (59.0), Left Fielder (58.0), and Designated Hitter (46.5) on All-Star. The best fit is Center Fielder rather than the listed Left Fielder, and that holds at every difficulty. At Center Fielder the card scores 61.2 on All-Star, 61.2 on Hall of Fame, and 61.8 on Legend — it keeps 101% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Left Fielders the card ranks #167 on All-Star and #171 on Legend.

On the Diamond Dynasty market, Jacob Melton currently buys for about 30 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 23%. Its quick-sell value of 25 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. Jacob Melton earns an OpScore of 58.8 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2407 among all cards and #171 among Left Fielders.

Live Series cards like Jacob Melton'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.