Donovan Walton — Common 63 OVR Shortstop Overview
Donovan Walton is a Common 63 OVR Shortstop card for the Athletics, 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 May 2026.
Donovan Walton grades out at 65 Fielding, 60 Contact, and 60 Speed.
Donovan Walton is eligible at 6 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Shortstop (53.2), Right Fielder (52.0), Second Baseman (51.8), Third Baseman (51.2), Left Fielder (50.0), and Designated Hitter (42.5) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Shortstop, at every difficulty. At Shortstop the card scores 53.2 on All-Star, 55.0 on Hall of Fame, and 55.6 on Legend — it keeps 105% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Shortstops the card ranks #167 on Legend and #174 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Donovan Walton currently buys for about 82 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has climbed roughly 100%. Its quick-sell value of 5 stubs sits at or above the sell price, making it quick-sell viable. DiamondOps flags the card as currently overpriced.
OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Donovan Walton earns an OpScore of 55.6 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2298 among all cards and #167 among Shortstops.
Live Series cards like Donovan Walton'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 Donovan Walton's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Donovan Walton is a 63 OVR Common Shortstop for the Athletics.
- Is Donovan Walton a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Shortstops, Donovan Walton ranks #174 on All-Star, #169 on Hall of Fame, and #167 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 Donovan Walton cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 82 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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