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MLB 13 The Show Player Ratings For Every Team

08:40 AM - February 25, 2013 by Steve_OS

Interested in MLB 13 The Show player ratings? Our friend chrisjohnson83 (with the only confirmed copy of the game so far) has provided them to us. Below are the top rated players at each position, to see the rest of the player ratings, check out the MLB 13 The Show screenshots page.

Updated rosters will no doubt be released before the March 5th release date, so keep that in mind.

Top Rated Players at Each Position

Top Rated First Basemen

99 Albert Pujols, Angels
98 Joey Votto, Reds
95 Prince Fielder, Tigers
94 Paul Konerko, White Sox
93 Adrian Gonzalez, Dodgers
92 Corey Hart, Brewers
92 Allen Craig, Cardinals
91 Mark Teixeira, Yankees
89 Mike Napoli, Boston
88 Ryan Howard, Phillies

Top Rated Second Basemen

99 Robinson Cano, Yankees
98 Dustin Pedroia, Boston
95 Ian Kinsler, Rangers
93 Brandon Phillips, Reds
90 Jose Altuve, Astros
89 Ben Zobrist, Rays
88 Chase Utley, Phillies
88 Omar Infante, Tigers
87 Emilio Bonifacio, Blue Jays
87 Howie Kendrick, Rangers

Top Rated Third Basemen

99 Miguel Cabrera, Tigers
96 Adrian Beltre, Rangers
93 Evan Longoria, Rays
93 David Wright, Mets
91 Chase Headley, Padres
91 Ryan Zimmerman, Nationals
89 Aramis Ramirez, Brewers
88 Alex Rodriguez, Yankees
86 Pablo Sandoval, Giants
85 Michael Young, Phillies
85 David Freese, Cardinals

Top Rated Shortstops

99 Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies
95 Jose Reyes, Blue Jays
93 Jimmy Rollins, Phillies
90 Derek Jeter, Yankees
90 Starlin Castro, Cubs
88 Elvis Andrus, Rangers
88 Rafael Furcal, Cardinals
88 Hanley Ramirez, Dodgers
85 Asdrubal Cabrera, Indians
85 Erick Aybar, Angels

Top Rated Catchers

99 Buster Posey, Giants
98 Yadier Molina, Cardinals
94 Carlos Ruiz, Phillies
93 Joe Mauer, Twins
93 Matt Wieters, O's
87 Salvador Perez, Royals
88 Brian McCann, Braves
86 A.J. Pierzynski, Rangers
86 Jonathan Lucroy, Brewers
86 Wilin Rosario, Rockies

Top Rated Left Fielders

99 Mike Trout, Angels
99 Ryan Braun, Brewers
99 Carlos Gonzalez, Rockies
92 Yoenis, Cespedes, Oakland
91 Matt Holliday, Cardinals
87 Bryce Harper, Nationals
86 Alfonso Soriano, Cubs
86 Justin Upton, Braves
85 Alex Gordon, Royals
85 Josh Willingham, Twins
85 David Murphy, Rangers

Top Rated Center Fielders

99 Andrew McCutchen, Pirates
99 Matt Kemp, Dodgers
94 Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston
91 Adam Jones, O's
88 B.J. Upton, Braves
87 Curtis Granderson, Yankees
86 Shin-Soo Choo, Reds
85 Coco Crisp, Oakland
84 Austin Jackson, Tigers
84 Angel Pagan, Giants

Top Rated Right Fielders

99 Josh Hamilton, Angels
98 Carlos Beltran, Cardinals
98 Jose Bautista, Blue Jays
95 Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins
93 Nelson Cruz, Rangers
93 Jay Bruce, Reds
91 Jason Heyward, Braves
90 Alex Rios, White Sox
90 Hunter Pence, Giants
89 Torii Hunter, Tigers
89 Ichiro Suzuki, Yankees

Top Rated Designated Hitters

94 Billy Butler, Royals
91 David Ortiz, Boston
88 Edwin Encarnacion, Blue Jays
85 Kevin Youkilis, Yankees
85 Victor Martinez, Tigers
85 Kendrys Morales, Mariners
84 Lance Berkman, Rangers
83 Mark Trumbo, Angels

Top Rated Pitchers

99 Jusin Verlander, Tigers
99 Felix Hernandez, Mariners
99 Stephen Strasburg, Nationals
99 Aroldis Chapman, Reds
99 Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers
97 David Price, Rays
96 Chris Sale, White Sox
96 Cliff Lee, Phillies
96 C.C. Sabathia, Yankees
96 Yu Darvish, Rangers
96 Adam Wainwright, Cardinals
95 Matt Kain, Giants
95 Kris Medlen, Braves
94 Rafael Betancourt, Rockies
94 Mat Latos, Reds
94 Zack Greinke, Dodgers
94 Roy Halladay, Phillies
94 Cole Hamels, Phillies
94 Josh Johnson, Blue Jays
94 James Shields, Royals
93 Jered Weaver, Angels
93 R.A. Dickey, Blue Jays
90 Jake Peavy, White Sox

Top Rated Closers

99 Craig Kimbrel, Braves
97 Mariano Rivera, Yankees
95 Jonathan Papelbon, Phillies
96 Jason Motte, Cardinals
95 Joel Hanrahan, Boston
94 Sergio Romo, Giants
93 Fernando Rodney, Rays
93 J.J. Putz, Dbacks
93 Greg Holland, Royals
90 Glen Perkins, Twins
92 Steve Cishek, Marlins
92 John Axford, Brewers
92 Tom Wilhelmsen, Mariners
91 Grant Balfour, Oakland
91 Joe Nathan, Rangers
90 Ryan Madson, Angels
89 Jose Veras, Astros
88 Chris Perez, Indians

To see all the MLB 13 The Show player ratings, check out the screenshots. Thanks again to chrisjohnson83, you can follow him on Twitter, right here.

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Member Comments

# 101 seanjeezy @ 02/26/13 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bayman


	Time to go back to the drawing board for your ratings system when Darvish with his one ok year is rated higher than both Jered Weaver and Matt Cain who each have had much better seasons than his one year for each of the past 3 years. There isn't enough peripheral stats in the world to justify that balance.

In The Show, ERA (which is what you seem to basing your argument on) is not an attribute, but K/9, BB/9, H/9, and HR/9 are... Darvish has a much higher K rate, lower HR rate, and a comparable average against compared to Weaver and Cain. He has a much higher walk rate but that's offset by the huge difference in strikeouts. Darvish also has much better stuff, so him being rated higher makes sense to me...

# 102 cardinalbird5 @ 02/26/13 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bayman


	Time to go back to the drawing board for your ratings system when Darvish with his one ok year is rated higher than both Jered Weaver and Matt Cain who each have had much better seasons than his one year for each of the past 3 years. There isn't enough peripheral stats in the world to justify that balance.

I'd take Darvish any day over Cain. Weaver it is close. Darvish pitches in one of the better hitter's parks and had incredible numbers. His strikeouts per nine was crazy!

# 103 cardinalbird5 @ 02/26/13 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	Well, Trout had Slugging at .598 and OPS at .998 and has power versus righties at 72.

Trout also had nearly a .600 SLG vs RHP. I projected him to have 90+ power, but I also bet a lot of his SLG points were due to his speed. I still feel like 72 is too low though. Curious to see what he hits vs lefties, because his SLG was nearly .100 lower.

# 104 Cavicchi @ 02/26/13 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	Trout also had nearly a .600 SLG vs RHP. I projected him to have 90+ power, but I also bet a lot of his SLG points were due to his speed. I still feel like 72 is too low though. Curious to see what he hits vs lefties, because his SLG was nearly .100 lower.

What I posted above was Trout's numbers last year against righties. I also feel 72 versus righties for power is too low. I wonder what they gave Harper?

# 105 cardinalbird5 @ 02/26/13 03:28 PM

Maybe they look at more than just SLG when it comes to power. A guy with 99 contact, 50 power, 99 speed playing at a big park would probably post a better slugging than someone with 70 contact 90 power 20 speed or something along those lines.

Theoretically, a great single hitter could have a slugging near .500-.600 range, but I don't think that justifies them being a 90+ in power.

With all that being said though, Trout did have 30+ HR's, so hopefully he will be 80+ against RHP with the updates.

# 106 Cavicchi @ 02/26/13 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	Maybe they look at more than just SLG when it comes to power. A guy with 99 contact, 50 power, 99 speed playing at a big park would probably post a better slugging than someone with 70 contact 90 power 20 speed or something along those lines. Theoretically, a great single hitter could have a slugging near .500-.600 range, but I don't think that justifies them being a 90+ in power. With all that being said though, Trout did have 30+ HR's, so hopefully he will be 80+ against RHP with the updates.

From what I saw, Trout has 93 for speed.

# 107 cardinalbird5 @ 02/26/13 03:39 PM

I saw too. I was just being hypothetical.

# 108 bautistabomb @ 02/26/13 04:54 PM

For the most part I think the rating for the Blue Jays are pretty accurate. A think Boni is rated a bit too high at 87, yet Lawrie is too low at 80. Would have also given Dickey a 97-98 rating as he did win the CY Young and was arguably the best pitcher in baseball the last 2 years. Overall i'm pretty satisfied and I like the fact that any player can be edited anyway. I still think that video games in general rate veterans way too highly. No way Arod and Jeter should be that high. They are both over the hill and have dropped off dramatically in the last few years.

# 109 bayman @ 02/26/13 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by seanjeezy


	In The Show, ERA (which is what you seem to basing your argument on) is not an attribute, but K/9, BB/9, H/9, and HR/9 are... Darvish has a much higher K rate, lower HR rate, and a comparable average against compared to Weaver and Cain. He has a much higher walk rate but that's offset by the huge difference in strikeouts. Darvish also has much better stuff, so him being rated higher makes sense to me...

Ok fine I won't base my argument on ERA, which is a far more telling number of a pitchers contribution to his team winning the game then any of the things anyone else has pointed to. I'll point out the huge difference in WHIPs, which is again a far more telling stat of which player actually helps win the game. Pointing out K/9 is like saying that the guy in the NBA who scores 10 points is better than the guy who scores 30, because the guy who scored 10 had more dunks. If the argument is that Darvish has to be rated higher because of the attribute system, then the attribute system needs to be overhauled. Pitching is about getting guys out and not giving up runs period.

# 110 seanjeezy @ 02/26/13 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by bayman


	Ok fine I won't base my argument on ERA, which is a far more telling number of a pitchers contribution to his team winning the game then any of the things anyone else has pointed to. I'll point out the huge difference in WHIPs, which is again a far more telling stat of which player actually helps win the game. Pointing out K/9 is like saying that the guy in the NBA who scores 10 points is better than the guy who scores 30, because the guy who scored 10 had more dunks. If the argument is that Darvish has to be rated higher because of the attribute system, then the attribute system needs to be overhauled. Pitching is about getting guys out and not giving up runs period.

And how would they do this exactly? Have a WHIP rating? Nope, H/9 and BB/9 are already in the game. A rating for ERA? Nope, then the game would be scripted as ****, you can't slap a rating on something that relies on multiple components and is highly variable. I don't see any viable choices that I would consider "traditional", even the sabermetric ones are covered by the standard /9 ratings... If you're that strongly against Darvish being better then lower his command, it has a heavy influence on quality of contact, and therefore effects ERA. It won't drop his ratings that much but it will make him less effective.

# 111 Cavicchi @ 02/26/13 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bayman


	Ok fine I won't base my argument on ERA, which is a far more telling number of a pitchers contribution to his team winning the game then any of the things anyone else has pointed to. I'll point out the huge difference in WHIPs, which is again a far more telling stat of which player actually helps win the game. Pointing out K/9 is like saying that the guy in the NBA who scores 10 points is better than the guy who scores 30, because the guy who scored 10 had more dunks. If the argument is that Darvish has to be rated higher because of the attribute system, then the attribute system needs to be overhauled. Pitching is about getting guys out and not giving up runs period.

That's how I see it as well. Are we in the minority? I don't care if pitcher gets them out via ground balls or strikeouts, an out is an out and a run is a run.

# 112 3fiddy @ 02/26/13 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	What I posted above was Trout's numbers last year against righties. I also feel 72 versus righties for power is too low. I wonder what they gave Harper?

Harper has 78 power vs righties. 55 power vs lefties. Screen shot earlier in feb.

# 113 Cavicchi @ 02/26/13 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by 3fiddy


	Harper has 78 power vs righties. 55 power vs lefties. Screen shot earlier in feb.

I thought that would be the case. Why should Harper have a higher power rating against righties when Trout has higher SLG and OPS against righties for 2012???

# 114 pirates1fan @ 02/26/13 06:17 PM

You know I have always kind of felt that the number rating thing is a little stupid, but I don't really have any problem with it. What I don't get is why people get so into it. If you think you can make the rating better, than just go and edit. I sure plan on doing that.

For example, John Lackey, who did not pitch last year and the year before that had an ERA 6.00+, is rated 80. A-Rod, 88. Felix Doubrant had a ERA just below 5.00, and has never done any better than that, 82.

I am not saying I am going to make Lackey, A-Rod, and Doubrant horrible, but I just don't think they deserve to be that high. So, quite simply, you don't like it, just change it yourself.

# 115 cardinalbird5 @ 02/26/13 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	That's how I see it as well. Are we in the minority? I don't care if pitcher gets them out via ground balls or strikeouts, an out is an out and a run is a run.

Strikeouts are more reliable and a better indication of consistency found in a pitcher. Groundouts are nice too, but a strikeout is always an out. Groundball and Flyball pitchers rely on some "luck".

Cain and Weaver also pitched in pitcher's parks more often than Darvish did. They are all 3 great pitchers with different assets. Lets just leave it at that...

# 116 Cavicchi @ 02/26/13 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	Strikeouts are more reliable and a better indication of consistency found in a pitcher. Groundouts are nice too, but a strikeout is always an out. Groundball and Flyball pitchers rely on some "luck". Cain and Weaver also pitched in pitcher's parks more often than Darvish did. They are all 3 great pitchers with different assets. Lets just leave it at that...

To me it's all about giving up runs. I don't care if pitcher has only 5 Ks and gets a shutout, which to me is better than 20 Ks and giving up five runs. I go with ERAs and Whip and Ks are just a bonus. There have been strikeout pitchers that had both Ks and good ERAs, such as Koufax and Gibson, and I would take either of those against Darvish.

# 117 slickkill77 @ 02/26/13 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	No...you cannot unfortunately. M.K. Knight165

I thought you guys said during CD that it was an option. Was it taken out or am I just mistaken?

# 118 tabarnes19_SDS @ 02/26/13 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by slickkill77


	I thought you guys said during CD that it was an option. Was it taken out or am I just mistaken?

We asked for an option to toggle it off, but it was never an option.

# 119 Knight165 @ 02/26/13 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by slickkill77


	I thought you guys said during CD that it was an option. Was it taken out or am I just mistaken?

It definitely wasn't any of us at CD who said that.

M.K.
Knight165

# 120 slickkill77 @ 02/26/13 08:07 PM

Ah I guess I was just confusing it with the fact that we have both numbers and bars and Russel(?) said that everyone would be happy because of that. Sorry for the confusion

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