Curtis Mead — Bronze 72 OVR Third Baseman Overview
Curtis Mead is a Bronze 72 OVR Third Baseman card for the Red Sox, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats right-handed. He is also eligible at First Baseman and Second Baseman. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
Curtis Mead grades out at 66 Contact, 66 Vision, and 60 Power.
Curtis Mead is eligible at 4 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Designated Hitter (57.2), First Baseman (57.1), Third Baseman (56.2), and Second Baseman (54.8) on All-Star. The best fit is Designated Hitter rather than the listed Third Baseman, and that holds at every difficulty. At Designated Hitter the card scores 57.2 on All-Star, 59.5 on Hall of Fame, and 60.3 on Legend — it keeps 105% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Third Basemans the card ranks #154 on Hall of Fame and #159 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Curtis Mead currently buys for about 32 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 30%. Its quick-sell value of 25 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. Curtis Mead earns an OpScore of 58.1 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2230 among all cards and #156 among Third Basemans.
Live Series cards like Curtis Mead'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 162 cards it scored 70 or above in its 1 graded update, 72% were upgraded, against 21% by chance: 3.5× better.
Common questions
- What is Curtis Mead's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Curtis Mead is a 72 OVR Bronze Third Baseman for the Red Sox.
- Is Curtis Mead a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Third Basemans, Curtis Mead ranks #159 on All-Star, #154 on Hall of Fame, and #156 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 Curtis Mead cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 32 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.
Where to go next
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- Live Series BronzesBronze prices track collection requirements, not player quality — which is why a forgettable Bronze can cost more than a better one.
- Diamond RadarWhich cards our model predicts will be upgraded at the next roster update.