Thomas Saggese — Common 63 OVR First Baseman Overview
Thomas Saggese is a Common 63 OVR First Baseman card for the Cardinals, 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, and Left Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
Thomas Saggese grades out at 73 Speed, 69 Contact, and 65 Fielding.
Thomas Saggese is eligible at 6 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (54.3), Second Baseman (53.4), Left Fielder (52.7), Third Baseman (52.6), First Baseman (45.7), and Designated Hitter (42.6) on All-Star. The best fit is Shortstop rather than the listed First Baseman, and that holds at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 54.3 on All-Star, 57.4 on Hall of Fame, and 58.1 on Legend — it keeps 107% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among First Basemans the card ranks #163 on Legend and #199 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Thomas Saggese currently buys for about 11 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 86%. 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. Thomas Saggese earns an OpScore of 52.3 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2623 among all cards and #163 among First Basemans.
Live Series cards like Thomas Saggese'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 Thomas Saggese's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Thomas Saggese is a 63 OVR Common First Baseman for the Cardinals.
- Is Thomas Saggese a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among First Basemans, Thomas Saggese ranks #199 on All-Star, #164 on Hall of Fame, and #163 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 Thomas Saggese 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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