Samad Taylor — Common 64 OVR Right Fielder Overview
Samad Taylor is a Common 64 OVR Right Fielder card for the Padres, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at Second Baseman, Third Baseman, Shortstop, Left Fielder, and Center Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in June 2026.
At the plate, Samad Taylor's standout tools are 85 Speed. His profile leans toward speed and baserunning.
Samad Taylor is eligible at 7 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Center Fielder (60.2), Right Fielder (57.8), Shortstop (57.3), Second Baseman (56.2), Left Fielder (55.5), Third Baseman (55.1), and Designated Hitter (41.5) on All-Star. The best fit is Center Fielder rather than the listed Right Fielder, and that holds at every difficulty. At Center Fielder the card scores 60.2 on All-Star, 61.5 on Hall of Fame, and 61.2 on Legend — it keeps 102% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Right Fielders the card ranks #140 on Hall of Fame and #153 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Samad Taylor currently buys for about 11 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 8%. 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. Samad Taylor earns an OpScore of 59.1 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1991 among all cards and #145 among Right Fielders.
Live Series cards like Samad Taylor'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 Samad Taylor's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Samad Taylor is a 64 OVR Common Right Fielder for the Padres.
- Is Samad Taylor a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Right Fielders, Samad Taylor ranks #153 on All-Star, #140 on Hall of Fame, and #145 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 Samad Taylor cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 11 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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