Paul Blackburn

Paul Blackburn is a Silver 78 OVR Relief Pitcher card for the Yankees, 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, Paul Blackburn works with a 5-pitch arsenal led by a 93 mph Sinker and a 90 mph Cutter. His pitching ratings include 83 Velocity, 58 Control, and 99 Break. The profile favors a movement-heavy arsenal built to miss bats.

DiamondOps grades each pitch in Paul Blackburn's arsenal: Sinker (S), Cutter (S), Sweeper (S), Circle Change (A), and Curveball (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 Sinker off the Cutter, so the two share a release look. Velocity works against the card here — its 83 mph Sinker 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, Paul Blackburn currently buys for about 125 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has climbed roughly 279%. Its quick-sell value of 125 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. Paul Blackburn earns an OpScore of 65.9 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1908 among all cards and #189 among Relief Pitchers.

Live Series cards like Paul Blackburn'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.