Noah Mendlinger — Common 55 OVR Shortstop Overview
Noah Mendlinger is a Common 55 OVR Shortstop card for the Cardinals, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats left-handed. He is also eligible at Second Baseman, Third Baseman, Left Fielder, and Right Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in August 2026.
Noah Mendlinger grades out at 66 Arm Strength, 62 Speed, and 58 Fielding.
Noah Mendlinger is eligible at 6 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (50.5), Right Fielder (48.9), Second Baseman (48.6), Third Baseman (47.7), Left Fielder (46.6), and Designated Hitter (36.4) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 50.5 on All-Star, 50.8 on Hall of Fame, and 50.7 on Legend — it keeps 100% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #190 on All-Star and #198 on Legend.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Noah Mendlinger currently buys for about 33 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 36%. 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. Noah Mendlinger earns an OpScore of 50.7 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2748 among all cards and #198 among Shortstops.
Live Series cards like Noah Mendlinger'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 Noah Mendlinger's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Noah Mendlinger is a 55 OVR Common Shortstop for the Cardinals.
- Is Noah Mendlinger a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Shortstops, Noah Mendlinger ranks #190 on All-Star, #196 on Hall of Fame, and #198 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 Noah Mendlinger cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 33 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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