Jimmy Crooks — Common 62 OVR Catcher Overview
Jimmy Crooks is a Common 62 OVR Catcher card for the Cardinals, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats left-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
Jimmy Crooks grades out at 66 Arm Strength, 65 Speed, and 60 Fielding.
Jimmy Crooks is eligible at 2 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Catcher (57.4) and Designated Hitter (40.7) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Catcher, at every difficulty. At Catcher the card scores 57.4 on All-Star, 56.9 on Hall of Fame, and 56.7 on Legend — it keeps 99% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Catchers the card ranks #140 on All-Star and #152 on Legend.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Jimmy Crooks currently buys for about 17 stubs, with sell orders near 7 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 48%. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 6 stubs, about a 75% return. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Jimmy Crooks earns an OpScore of 56.7 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2207 among all cards and #152 among Catchers.
Live Series cards like Jimmy Crooks'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 Jimmy Crooks's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Jimmy Crooks is a 62 OVR Common Catcher for the Cardinals.
- Is Jimmy Crooks a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Catchers, Jimmy Crooks ranks #140 on All-Star, #146 on Hall of Fame, and #152 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 Jimmy Crooks cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 17 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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