MLB 12 the Show Player Ratings: Recapping the Ratings They Got Wrong

MLB 12: The Show hit shelves yesterday, and while it has gotten good reception from critics, Sony was definitely a bit off on some player ratings. 

Of course you can't expect the developers to get everyone's strengths and weaknesses completely spot on, but there's a few players in the game whose ratings are much different than they should be.

Here are seven rankings they got wrong, in no particular order.

1. Francisco Rodriguez rated higher than Yovani Gallardo.

Francisco Rodriguez isn't even the team's closer anymore. Yovani Gallardo won 17 games last season. K-Rod punched his father-in-law in the face. Gallardo didn't.

2. Shane Victorino rated higher than Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins.

Ranking him higher than Jimmy Rollins is borderline, but putting him ahead of Utley and Howard is ridiculous. Victorino went for 17 home runs and 61 RBI last season. Howard had that by the end of June.

3. Ike Davis rated lower than Jason Bay. 

This one is so bad. Bay has completely lost the ability to hit the ball. How did he do this? No idea, but he must have been trying to play bad. Bay's regression over these last two seasons is one of the worst things I've seen in professional baseball. He's completely lost at the plate. It's times like these that make me think about whether the people who rate these players actually watch baseball.

4. Steven Strasburg rated as the best player on the Washington Nationals.

Obviously Strasburg has the stuff to blow away major league hitters. But don't you think that he should at least pitch for one full season before he gets put ahead of a guy like Ryan Zimmerman? By the way, Zimmerman is also behind Drew Storen, Mike Morse and Gio Gonzalez.

5. Carl Pavano's stamina rating.

Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Carl Pavano has a maxed out stamina rating. Okay, he threw for 200-plus innings the last two seasons, but before that he hadn't reached 200 since 2004. Also, his hits/nine-innings is halfway full. It should definitely be a bit worse than that seeing as he let up 262 hits last season, tops in the league.

6. David Price rated higher than James Shields.

If you go two or three years into the future this rating will be correct. Right now it isn't. Shields was absolutely dominant in a season in which a third of his 33 starts were complete games. He posted a 2.82 ERA with 225 strikeouts. Price's ERA was just under 3.50 with less strikeouts and innings pitched than Shields.

7. Derek Jeter's rating.

No surprise here that Jeter is rated higher than he should be. The guy really didn't have a good season at all in 2011, but he's still one of the top-ranked shortstops. You could argue that he's not even one of the 10 best at his position any longer.