Should I draft Carson Kelly or Matt Thaiss?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Carson Kelly or Matt Thaiss.

PLEASE NOTE this is a draft choice comparison analysis based upon Preseason Projections only. As the baseball season is already underway, you may instead prefer to view our breakdown of a trade for these players which is based upon several more factors including in-season performance.

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Batting
2024 Preseason Projections
Draft Value	-0.11	-0.12
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	85.00	83.00
AB	192	201
R	23	23
H	43	42
2B	8	6
3B	0	0
HR	5	6
RBI	22	22
SB	1	1
K	48	56
BB	21	27
AVG	.224	.209
OBP	.300	.303
SLG	.344	.328
OPS	.643	.631

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Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	70.0	22.0
AB	139	65
R	15	7
H	34	14
2B	3	6
3B	1	0
HR	5	1
RBI	21	7
SB	0	0
K	32	25
BB	12	10
AVG	.245	.215
OBP	.323	.320
SLG	.389	.354
OPS	.711	.674

Recent News
	Tigers' Carson Kelly: Tees off Sunday Published June 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Carson Kelly: Out of lineup Tuesday Published June 25th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Carson Kelly: Leads offense in loss Published June 24th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Carson Kelly: Sitting again Sunday Published June 23rd, 2024 via CBS Sports Among potential Tigers trade candidates, don't sleep on catcher Carson Kelly Published June 22nd, 2024 via Detroit News Tigers' Carson Kelly: Idle Saturday Published June 22nd, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Carson Kelly: Homers in win Published June 21st, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Carson Kelly: Resting Wednesday Published June 19th, 2024 via CBS Sports	Angels' Matt Thaiss: Getting start with O'Hoppe resting Published June 26th, 2024 via CBS Sports Angels' Matt Thaiss: Slugs homer Sunday Published May 27th, 2024 via CBS Sports Matt Thaiss in lineup Sunday Published May 26th, 2024 via FantasyPros Matt Thaiss in lineup Wednesday Published May 22nd, 2024 via FantasyPros Matt Thaiss Career Stats - MLB - - ESPN (SG) Published May 9th, 2024 via ESPN Guardians nab Matt Thaiss at the plate \| 05/05/2024 Published May 5th, 2024 via MLB.com Angels' Matt Thaiss returning to bench Monday Published April 22nd, 2024 via numberFire Catcher Matt Thaiss Believes Jose Soriano Suffered From 'Bad Luck' In First Start Published April 18th, 2024 via MSN

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