Nacho Alvarez Jr. — Common 62 OVR Shortstop Overview
Nacho Alvarez Jr. is a Common 62 OVR Shortstop card for the Angels, 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.
Nacho Alvarez Jr. grades out at 65 Fielding, 63 Contact, and 60 Vision.
Nacho Alvarez Jr. is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (47.9), Second Baseman (46.6), Third Baseman (45.8), and Designated Hitter (38.3) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 47.9 on All-Star, 52.3 on Hall of Fame, and 54.2 on Legend — it keeps 113% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #180 on Legend and #204 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Nacho Alvarez Jr. currently buys for about 13 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 7%. 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. Nacho Alvarez Jr. earns an OpScore of 54.2 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2444 among all cards and #180 among Shortstops.
Live Series cards like Nacho Alvarez Jr.'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 Nacho Alvarez Jr.'s overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Nacho Alvarez Jr. is a 62 OVR Common Shortstop for the Angels.
- Is Nacho Alvarez Jr. a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Shortstops, Nacho Alvarez Jr. ranks #204 on All-Star, #191 on Hall of Fame, and #180 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 Nacho Alvarez Jr. cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 13 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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