John Franco

John Franco is a Gold 83 OVR Relief Pitcher card for the Reds, part of the Breakout set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He throws left-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

On the mound, John Franco works with a 5-pitch arsenal led by a 92 mph 4-Seam Fastball and a 90 mph Sinker. His pitching ratings include 63 Velocity, 57 Control, and 99 Break. The profile favors a movement-heavy arsenal built to miss bats.

DiamondOps grades each pitch in John Franco's arsenal: Slider (S), Sinker (S), 4-Seam Fastball (S), Circle Change (A), and Screwball (C). 3 of them grade S-tier, which is what separates a genuine out-pitch mix from a deep-but-flat arsenal. Its strongest tunnel pairing is the Sinker off the 4-Seam Fastball, so the two share a release look. Velocity works against the card here — its 63 mph Sinker is slow enough to cost it in the arsenal score. Arsenal grades are the same at every difficulty — unlike a hitter's OpScore, a pitch mix does not re-weight as you climb.

John Franco is not currently traded on the open Diamond Dynasty market — cards like this are typically earned through programs or collections rather than bought with stubs.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. John Franco earns an OpScore of 70.4 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1729 among all cards and #130 among Relief Pitchers.