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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

# 141 3fiddy @ 02/28/13 10:53 AM

[quote=Cavicchi;2044753683]Absolutely! They have Harper with 78 for power against RHP while Trout (72) has both SLG and OPS higher against RHP.

This is jus for arguments sake. I think both are fantastic players. This is more to bunk slugging percentage. First thing that popped in my head was how many singles did he turn to doubles. Or triples. Hope this isn't too off base ..

Mike Trouts slash line 2012. 559 abs. 117 singles. 27 doubles. 8 triples. 30 homers.
Now I'll give my line IF BIG IF HERE Trout didn't have BLAZING speed. And enter that into the slugging calculator.

Trout 559 abs. 115singles. 25 doubles. 1 triple. 30 homers. Slugging comes to ab .513 The likes of Ian Desmond , Jason Kubel , Cory hart , Adam laroche. All of which seem like 70s power. 70s power seemed like so much more with just the bar. We just arguing cents here too

# 142 Cavicchi @ 02/28/13 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	Absolutely! They have Harper with 78 for power against RHP while Trout (72) has both SLG and OPS higher against RHP. This is jus for arguments sake. I think both are fantastic players. This is more to bunk slugging percentage. First thing that popped in my head was how many singles did he turn to doubles. Or triples. Hope this isn't too off base .. Mike Trouts slash line 2012. 559 abs. 117 singles. 27 doubles. 8 triples. 30 homers. Now I'll give my line IF BIG IF HERE Trout didn't have BLAZING speed. And enter that into the slugging calculator. Trout 559 abs. 115singles. 25 doubles. 1 triple. 30 homers. Slugging comes to ab .513 The likes of Ian Desmond , Jason Kubel , Cory hart , Adam laroche. All of which seem like 70s power. 70s power seemed like so much more with just the bar. We just arguing cents here too

I am not interested in big ifs, I like facts, statistics that are real.

# 143 cardinalbird5 @ 02/28/13 02:35 PM

I agree speed helps with SLG a lot, but he still had 30 homeruns. You'd have to break it down per hit to see how many singles he turned to doubles and doubles he turned into triples. If he played the first month he'd have around 34-35 probably.

Alot what if's and I was questioning the same thing as well. You can't just look at SLG and turn that into power. You have to look at average distance ball traveled, homeruns, and IsoP.

# 144 3fiddy @ 02/28/13 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	I agree speed helps with SLG a lot, but he still had 30 homeruns. You'd have to break it down per hit to see how many singles he turned to doubles and doubles he turned into triples. If he played the first month he'd have around 34-35 probably. Alot what if's and I was questioning the same thing as well. You can't just look at SLG and turn that into power. You have to look at average distance ball traveled, homeruns, and IsoP.

Yes it's not a good tool at all. Really trying to show why slugging and OPS are not perfect power calculators. Trout just an example. Glad Kendrys got some love to but he's listed as a DH... I need his old defense too lol

# 145 Cavicchi @ 02/28/13 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	I agree speed helps with SLG a lot, but he still had 30 homeruns. You'd have to break it down per hit to see how many singles he turned to doubles and doubles he turned into triples. If he played the first month he'd have around 34-35 probably. Alot what if's and I was questioning the same thing as well. You can't just look at SLG and turn that into power. You have to look at average distance ball traveled, homeruns, and IsoP.

Trout plays home games at Anaheim and that is not a easy park to hit homeruns. Anyway, you have statistical data to show why Harper should be rated higher than Trout for power against right-handed pitchers? In the game, Harper is 78 and Trout 72 power vs. RHP.

# 146 Cavicchi @ 02/28/13 05:55 PM

I feel that something has been lost in this Harper versus Trout power rating discussion: the reality of real baseball. The homerun leader is not determined by longest average distance of homers, and Slg % leader means just that, Slugging. Then there is OPS and what that means. Trout is not playing in Wrigley Field, which I believe is homer friendly, at least more so than Anaheim.

A double is a double and so on. The leader of doubles is not broken down by speed.

# 147 cardinalbird5 @ 02/28/13 06:13 PM

No but I think the reason he was arguing over that was because those "doubles" can be recreated with high contact and high speed. You don't need power for that. If you give Trout 99 power he'd have a SLG over .700 probably.

I still think he deserves at least a 90 Power though. 30 homeruns is pretty impressive, not to mention he didn't play the first month. He had a higher homerun rate than Pujols, yet I can almost bet Pujols has that 90+ power rating.

# 148 Cavicchi @ 02/28/13 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	No but I think the reason he was arguing over that was because those "doubles" can be recreated with high contact and high speed. You don't need power for that. If you give Trout 99 power he'd have a SLG over .700 probably. I still think he deserves at least a 90 Power though. 30 homeruns is pretty impressive, not to mention he didn't play the first month. He had a higher homerun rate than Pujols, yet I can almost bet Pujols has that 90+ power rating.

I don't know about 90, but I do believe he should be higher than Harper's 78, or lower Harper to below 72.

# 149 SoonerSports @ 02/28/13 11:10 PM

All I can say is that Harpers Avg. HR distance was longer than Trouts by almost 15-20 feet

# 150 ParisB @ 03/01/13 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SoonerSports


	All I can say is that Harpers Avg. HR distance was longer than Trouts by almost 15-20 feet

Trout has a much more compact swing and smashes the ball all over the field. It seems like he makes solid contact every time. The ball screams to the opposite field.

You can make the argument that Trout hits the ball harder.....Trout hit an opposite field home run that went 440' in Comerica. The power is there, and when he tries to hit home runs he can launch them with the best of them (the dude is built like a linebacker).

# 151 nomo17k @ 03/01/13 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	I agree speed helps with SLG a lot, but he still had 30 homeruns. You'd have to break it down per hit to see how many singles he turned to doubles and doubles he turned into triples. If he played the first month he'd have around 34-35 probably. Alot what if's and I was questioning the same thing as well. You can't just look at SLG and turn that into power. You have to look at average distance ball traveled, homeruns, and IsoP.

You cannot just look at HRs in this case. While hitting 30 HRs missing most of April looks impressive, Trout had a very good batting average, meaning he produced a lot of safe hits. If he is really powerful, many more of those safe hits would've been converted into HRs... in fact, just 16.5% (= 100 * 30 / 182) of hits were HRs for Trout. If he had the power of Adam Dunn, who had 37.3% (= 100 * 41/110) of hits in HRs, Trout would've hit 68 HRs (!) in 2012.... so you could argue that Trout reached the 30 HR mark partly because he is generally a great hitter with some but not great pop, and he had enough playing time.

When rating a player for power, you should probably look at something like HR / H or something like that, to better isolate the ability to "rake"

# 152 cardinalbird5 @ 03/01/13 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by nomo17k


	You cannot just look at HRs in this case. While hitting 30 HRs missing most of April looks impressive, Trout had a very good batting average, meaning he produced a lot of safe hits. If he is really powerful, many more of those safe hits would've been converted into HRs... in fact, just 16.5% (= 100 * 30 / 182) of hits were HRs for Trout. If he had the power of Adam Dunn, who had 37.3% (= 100 * 41/110) of hits in HRs, Trout would've hit 68 HRs (!) in 2012.... so you could argue that Trout reached the 30 HR mark partly because he is generally a great hitter with some but not great pop, and he had enough playing time. When rating a player for power, you should probably look at something like HR / H or something like that, to better isolate the ability to "rake"

That what I am curious about. I am not saying HR's is the only factor, but I don't think H/HR would be the best stat either. What about guys like Pujols when he'd hit .330 with 40+ HR's? Does he not deserve the 90 power either?

I am not really complaining about his attributes either as more as I am just curious. I guess I still don't understand what constitutes "contact" and "power".

# 153 Cavicchi @ 03/01/13 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by nomo17k


	You cannot just look at HRs in this case. While hitting 30 HRs missing most of April looks impressive, Trout had a very good batting average, meaning he produced a lot of safe hits. If he is really powerful, many more of those safe hits would've been converted into HRs... in fact, just 16.5% (= 100 * 30 / 182) of hits were HRs for Trout. If he had the power of Adam Dunn, who had 37.3% (= 100 * 41/110) of hits in HRs, Trout would've hit 68 HRs (!) in 2012.... so you could argue that Trout reached the 30 HR mark partly because he is generally a great hitter with some but not great pop, and he had enough playing time. When rating a player for power, you should probably look at something like HR / H or something like that, to better isolate the ability to "rake"

I would put it another way, Trout has power and can hit for average.

What is this game using to calculate power rating?

# 154 nomo17k @ 03/01/13 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by cardinalbird7


	That what I am curious about. I am not saying HR's is the only factor, but I don't think H/HR would be the best stat either. What about guys like Pujols when he'd hit .330 with 40+ HR's? Does he not deserve the 90 power either? I am not really complaining about his attributes either as more as I am just curious. I guess I still don't understand what constitutes "contact" and "power".

Contact rating = batting average is correct by our experience and has been pretty much confirmed that the rating is designed to replicate. I'm not sure about Power rating exactly, but it's pretty obvious that what it affects most is the speed of the batted ball... the higher the Power rating, the faster the ball travels off the bat for the most part... for grounders, line drives, fly balls.... all. hahahaha

In regular gameplay, I think Contact is probably most well correlated with line drive % in details.... There has been pretty solid evidence (e.g., sabermetrics) that high batting average is mostly a result of more line drives (which tend to fall between fielders before being caught). So high Contact hitters produce more line drives compared to grounders, fly balls, popups, etc.

I think Power pretty much translates to how much jolt you can put into the batted ball.... it tends to work like that in looking at numbers in simmed games.... but in regular gameplay it feels that it has slightly larger effect than just putting jolt, since by making the batted ball travel faster, high Power hitter can convert some less-quality hits into safe hits, finding holes and landing between fielders. So when you compare high and low Power hitters with same Contact, the former tends to outperform (which makes sense even in real life.....).

I just cited HR / H, because it's the easiest number to calculate (almost all baseball stats sites/books has the number), and so long as you can neglect park factors, hitting approach, swing angle and all, it represents what we conceive as power fairly well....... hahaha.

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	I would put it another way, Trout has power and can hit for average. What is this game using to calculate power rating?

I don't know this exactly, but HR/H does correlate well with HR numbers in the game:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2042370718

That's from simmed games though.... but I doubt things are that different in regular gameplay for this specific case....... haha.

One thing I'd also add is that I think partly the reason why the game doesn't *have* to give exceptionally high Power ratings to those who hit for high averages but still produce 30/40+ HRs or so as well, is that those types of hitters probably are compensating between power and contact approach to some degree... meaning they choose to hit for very high average by not going for fence all the time (reduced power).

# 155 Cavicchi @ 03/01/13 12:05 PM

I still don't get why Harper should have higher power rating than Trout, 78-72 vs RHP.

# 156 franch1se @ 03/01/13 12:14 PM

that top rated closer list on the first page is wrong. Its missing Huston Street who is a 90 overall

# 157 3fiddy @ 03/01/13 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	I still don't get why Harper should have higher power rating than Trout, 78-72 vs RHP.

No one knows what trout will do next. I hope he goes 50/50 club next year I make my peace with swing plane. Pujols will never hit 50 with that even swing plane Adam dunn will not make enough contact to hit 50. Uppercut swing gives a smaller timing window for peak results. Even swing gives a better chance for contact without peak power. Trout seems to be a man among boys and break the mold. So the ratings guy chose the contact path. I agree awesome power but he can't be 99 everywhere lol This works for me unless he comes out mashing homers then it should be bumped up. Otherwise I think it play good. Wish I knew how to calculate power too I research splits all of January preparing for draft. And sometimes you jus gotta watch the guy.

# 158 Cavicchi @ 03/01/13 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 3fiddy


	No one knows what trout will do next. I hope he goes 50/50 club next year I make my peace with swing plane. Pujols will never hit 50 with that even swing plane Adam dunn will not make enough contact to hit 50. Uppercut swing gives a smaller timing window for peak results. Even swing gives a better chance for contact without peak power. Trout seems to be a man among boys and break the mold. So the ratings guy chose the contact path. I agree awesome power but he can't be 99 everywhere lol This works for me unless he comes out mashing homers then it should be bumped up. Otherwise I think it play good. Wish I knew how to calculate power too I research splits all of January preparing for draft. And sometimes you jus gotta watch the guy.

You know what, no one knows what Harper will do next. The one thing we do know is what these two did last year. Based on last year, why is Harper rated higher for power against RHP??? Harper is 78 and Trout is 72. Slg % belongs to Trout. Let me put it in a more meaningful term, how does this game justify the rating difference?

# 159 MrOldboy @ 03/01/13 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	You know what, no one knows what Harper will do next. The one thing we do know is what these two did last year. Based on last year, why is Harper rated higher for power against RHP??? Harper is 78 and Trout is 72. Slg % belongs to Trout. Let me put it in a more meaningful term, how does this game justify the rating difference?

What has become apparent is that its not cut and dry how SCEA rates players. It feels arbitrary in spots. Trout had a higher AB/HR and the same HR/H ratio as Harper against RHP. So by a lot of arguments in this thread Trout should have been slightly higher than Harper in power vs RHP.

If Harper's power shows up and his AB/HR jumps to 15 early in the year than re-rate him higher, but rating a player based off of feel, or scouting reports doesn't seem like the way to go.

Its just no clear how the player's are rated and they do matter, especially for online play.

# 160 3fiddy @ 03/01/13 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cavicchi


	You know what, no one knows what Harper will do next. The one thing we do know is what these two did last year. Based on last year, why is Harper rated higher for power against RHP??? Harper is 78 and Trout is 72. Slg % belongs to Trout. Let me put it in a more meaningful term, how does this game justify the rating difference?

I'm no help their. Hopefully the guys who do the rosters for us chime in.

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