Nick Gonzales — Silver 78 OVR Third Baseman Overview
Nick Gonzales is a Silver 78 OVR Third Baseman 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 Shortstop. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
At the plate, Nick Gonzales's standout tools are 88 Contact and 80 Speed. His profile leans toward contact hitting.
Nick Gonzales is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (61.8), Third Baseman (61.4), Second Baseman (61.1), and Designated Hitter (51.9) on All-Star. Which slot is best depends on how you play — Shortstop on All-Star, Third Baseman on Hall of Fame, and Third Baseman on Legend. At Shortstop the card scores 61.8 on All-Star, 69.4 on Hall of Fame, and 71.9 on Legend — it keeps 116% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Third Basemans the card ranks #107 on Legend and #125 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Nick Gonzales currently buys for about 140 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 32%. Its quick-sell value of 125 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. Nick Gonzales earns an OpScore of 73.5 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1251 among all cards and #107 among Third Basemans.
Live Series cards like Nick Gonzales'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 Nick Gonzales's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Nick Gonzales is a 78 OVR Silver Third Baseman for the Pirates.
- Is Nick Gonzales a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Third Basemans, Nick Gonzales ranks #125 on All-Star, #113 on Hall of Fame, and #107 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 Nick Gonzales cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 140 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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