Grant Taylor

Grant Taylor is a Gold 83 OVR Closer card for the White Sox, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He throws right-handed. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.

On the mound, Grant Taylor works with a 4-pitch arsenal led by a 99 mph 4-Seam Fastball and a 95 mph Cutter. His pitching ratings include 97 Velocity, 62 Control, and 95 Break. The profile favors a movement-heavy arsenal built to miss bats.

DiamondOps grades each pitch in Grant Taylor's arsenal: Slider (S), 4-Seam Fastball (S), Cutter (S), and 12-6 Curve (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 Cutter off the Slider, so the two share a release look. Its 97 mph 4-Seam Fastball adds a velocity bonus on top. 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, Grant Taylor currently buys for about 453 stubs, with sell orders near 400 stubs. Over the past 7 days the price has held roughly steady. Flipping at current buy and sell prices nets roughly 5 stubs, about a 1% return. DiamondOps suggests waiting for a better entry point.

OpScore is DiamondOps' composite rating of a card's in-game performance value. Grant Taylor earns an OpScore of 71.7 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1635 among all cards and #86 among Closers.

Live Series cards like Grant Taylor'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.