Zac Thornton

Zac Thornton is a Bronze 70 OVR Starting Pitcher card for the Mets, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He throws left-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in May 2026.

On the mound, Zac Thornton works with a 5-pitch arsenal led by a 91 mph 4-Seam Fastball and a 87 mph Cutter. His pitching ratings include 56 Velocity, 52 Control, and 52 Break. The profile favors a balanced mix of command and movement.

DiamondOps grades each pitch in Zac Thornton's arsenal: Slider (S), 4-Seam Fastball (S), Cutter (S), Circle Change (A), and Slurve (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 56 mph 4-Seam Fastball 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, Zac Thornton currently buys for about 56 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has climbed roughly 87%. Its quick-sell value of 25 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. Zac Thornton earns an OpScore of 52.5 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2997 among all cards and #595 among Starting Pitchers.

Live Series cards like Zac Thornton'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. Model v11: of the 358 cards it scored 70 or above in its 3 graded updates, 69% were upgraded, against 17% by chance: 4.1× better.