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MLB ratings

Nine separate pools, which is more than any other sport here, because baseball positions genuinely are different jobs. Hitters are rated on what they did this season, pitchers on a different scale entirely, and the nine-bat lineup mode is the longest draft in the game.

How these ratings are built

Hitters are rated on 2026 fantasy points per game, built from runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI, steals and walks, then curved separately for each position, because a catcher who hits like an outfielder is a far rarer thing. Starting pitchers are rated per start on innings, strikeouts, wins and earned runs; relievers per appearance with saves and holds added. There are minimums (forty games for a hitter, eight starts, twenty-five relief outings) and anyone under a full workload has his stat rating blended back toward the editorial one in proportion to what he missed, so a hot fortnight cannot buy a 99.

Every rating in this category runs on the same 40 to 99 scale the rest of the game uses. There are 529 entries here across 9 pools. In the game itself these numbers stay hidden until the verdict screen, which is the whole point of the auction; this page is the reference copy, for settling arguments after the fact.

Jump to: Catchers · First basemen · Second basemen · Shortstops · Third basemen · Outfielders · Designated hitters · Starting pitchers · Relief pitchers

Catchers · Current

22 in this pool, from Hunter Goodman at 92 down to Austin Wells at 59.

Catchers · All-time greats

16 in this pool, from Johnny Bench at 97 down to Ted Simmons at 81.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

First basemen · Current

34 in this pool, from Nick Kurtz at 88 down to Kyle Manzardo at 61.

First basemen · All-time greats

17 in this pool, from Lou Gehrig at 99 down to Keith Hernandez at 82.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Second basemen · Current

22 in this pool, from Brice Turang at 88 down to Nasim Nuñez at 64.

Second basemen · All-time greats

16 in this pool, from Rogers Hornsby at 99 down to Bobby Grich at 82.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Shortstops · Current

25 in this pool, from Elly De La Cruz at 92 down to Ezequiel Tovar at 58.

Shortstops · All-time greats

16 in this pool, from Honus Wagner at 99 down to Omar Vizquel at 80.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Third basemen · Current

22 in this pool, from Junior Caminero at 89 down to Ryan McMahon at 55.

Third basemen · All-time greats

16 in this pool, from Mike Schmidt at 99 down to Evan Longoria at 80.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Outfielders · Current

71 in this pool, from Pete Crow-Armstrong at 99 down to Colton Cowser at 55.

Outfielders · All-time greats

34 in this pool, from Babe Ruth at 99 down to Jim Rice at 82.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Designated hitters · Current

18 in this pool, from Yordan Alvarez at 92 down to Michael Conforto at 60.

Designated hitters · All-time greats

12 in this pool, from David Ortiz at 96 down to Travis Hafner at 78.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Starting pitchers · Current

102 in this pool, from Jacob Misiorowski at 99 down to Zac Gallen at 53.

Starting pitchers · All-time greats

33 in this pool, from Walter Johnson at 99 down to Phil Niekro at 84.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

Relief pitchers · Current

37 in this pool, from Mason Miller at 99 down to Rico Garcia at 60.

Relief pitchers · All-time greats

16 in this pool, from Mariano Rivera at 99 down to Sparky Lyle at 78.

All-time ratings are editorial calls rather than anything a box score produced, for the obvious reason that the statistics were not kept the same way, or at all.

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