Ildemaro Vargas — Silver 76 OVR Third Baseman Overview
Ildemaro Vargas is a Silver 76 OVR Third Baseman card for the Diamondbacks, part of the Live set in MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty. He is a switch hitter. He is also eligible at First Baseman, Second Baseman, Shortstop, and Left Fielder. The card was added to Diamond Dynasty in April 2026.
At the plate, Ildemaro Vargas's standout tools are 97 Vision and 82 Contact.
Ildemaro Vargas is eligible at 6 positions, and DiamondOps scores each one separately: Third Baseman (58.4), Second Baseman (58.1), Shortstop (57.6), Left Fielder (56.4), First Baseman (56.2), and Designated Hitter (54.9) on All-Star. Which slot is best depends on how you play — Third Baseman on All-Star, Designated Hitter on Hall of Fame, and Designated Hitter on Legend. At Third Baseman the card scores 58.4 on All-Star, 67.2 on Hall of Fame, and 71.6 on Legend — it keeps 123% of its All-Star value at the top difficulty, which is unusually durable. Among Third Basemans the card ranks #134 on Legend and #154 on All-Star.
On the Diamond Dynasty market, Ildemaro Vargas currently buys for about 110 stubs, with sell orders near 0 stubs. Over the past 7 days the buy price has fallen roughly 31%. Its quick-sell value of 75 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. Ildemaro Vargas earns an OpScore of 71.6 on Legend difficulty, ranking #1522 among all cards and #134 among Third Basemans.
Live Series cards like Ildemaro Vargas'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 342 cards it scored 70 or above in its 2 graded updates, 71% were upgraded, against 22% by chance: 3.3× better.
Common questions
- What is Ildemaro Vargas's overall rating in MLB The Show 26?
- Ildemaro Vargas is a 76 OVR Silver Third Baseman for the Diamondbacks.
- Is Ildemaro Vargas a good card in MLB The Show 26?
- Among Third Basemans, Ildemaro Vargas ranks #154 on All-Star, #141 on Hall of Fame, and #134 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 Ildemaro Vargas cost in Diamond Dynasty?
- The last recorded buy-now price was 110 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.
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