Nolan Schanuel

Nolan Schanuel is a Bronze 70 OVR First Baseman card for the Angels, 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.

At the plate, Nolan Schanuel's standout tools are 85 Contact and 85 Vision. His profile leans toward contact hitting.

Nolan Schanuel is eligible at 2 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: First Baseman (50.8) and Designated Hitter (49.6) on All-Star. Which slot is best depends on how you play — First Baseman on All-Star, First Baseman on Hall of Fame, and Designated Hitter on Legend. At First Baseman the card scores 50.8 on All-Star, 58.7 on Hall of Fame, and 63.8 on Legend — it keeps 126% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among First Basemans the card ranks #136 on Legend and #168 on All-Star.

On the Diamond Dynasty market, Nolan Schanuel currently buys for about 36 stubs, with sell orders near 25 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 40%. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 5 stubs, about a 19% return. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Nolan Schanuel earns an OpScore of 63.8 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1661 among all cards and #136 among First Basemans.

Live Series cards like Nolan Schanuel'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).