Ricky Vanasco — Common 58 OVR Relief Pitcher Overview
Ricky Vanasco is a Common 58 OVR Relief Pitcher card for the Braves, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He throws right-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in May 2026.
On the mound, Ricky Vanasco works with a 4-pitch arsenal led by a 95 mph 4-Seam Fastball and a 94 mph Cutter. His pitching ratings include 84 Velocity, 37 Control, and 82 Break. The profile favors a movement-heavy arsenal built to miss bats.
DiamondOps grades each pitch in Ricky Vanasco's arsenal: Slider (S), 4-Seam Fastball (S), Cutter (S), and 12-6 Curve (B). 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 Slider off the Cutter, so the two share a release look. Velocity works against the card here — its 84 mph Cutter 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.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Ricky Vanasco currently buys for about 16 stubs, with sell orders near 5 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 79%. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 7 stubs, about a 117% return. DiamondOps currently rates the card a buy at this price.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Ricky Vanasco earns an OpScore of 48.6 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2912 among all cards and #601 among Relief Pitchers.
Live Series cards like Ricky Vanasco'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 Ricky Vanasco's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Ricky Vanasco is a 58 OVR Common Relief Pitcher for the Braves.
- Is Ricky Vanasco a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Relief Pitchers, Ricky Vanasco ranks #631 on All-Star, #592 on Hall of Fame, and #601 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 Ricky Vanasco cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 16 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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