Samuel Basallo — Bronze 73 OVR Catcher Overview
Samuel Basallo is a Bronze 73 OVR Catcher card for the Orioles, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He bats left-handed. He is also eligible at First Baseman. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
At the plate, Samuel Basallo's standout tools are 96 Arm Strength and 84 Power.
Samuel Basallo is eligible at 3 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Catcher (64.2), First Baseman (55.7), and Designated Hitter (54.7) on All-Star. The card is strongest at its listed position, Catcher, at every difficulty. At Catcher the card scores 64.2 on All-Star, 61.7 on Hall of Fame, and 60.4 on Legend — it keeps 94% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Catchers the card ranks #119 on All-Star and #141 on Legend.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Samuel Basallo currently buys for about 68 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 49%. 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. Samuel Basallo earns an OpScore of 60.4 on Legend difficulty, ranking #2053 among all cards and #141 among Catchers.
Live Series cards like Samuel Basallo'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 Samuel Basallo's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Samuel Basallo is a 73 OVR Bronze Catcher for the Orioles.
- Is Samuel Basallo a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Catchers, Samuel Basallo ranks #119 on All-Star, #127 on Hall of Fame, and #141 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 Samuel Basallo cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 68 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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- Diamond RadarWhich cards our model predicts will be upgraded at the next roster update.