Should I draft Elieser Hernandez or Cade Smith?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Elieser Hernandez or Cade Smith.

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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Pitching
2024 Preseason Projections
Draft Value	-0.50	-0.32
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	64.00	79.00
W	1	1
L	0	2
SV	0	0
IP	26.0	44.0
H	22	38
ER	9	19
K	28	48
BB	7	20
ERA	3.12	3.89
WHIP	1.12	1.32

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Pitching
Season Statistics
PROJ	8.0	107.0
W	0	3
L	1	1
SV	0	1
IP	15.2	36.2
H	14	25
ER	11	8
K	8	48
BB	5	9
ERA	6.51	1.99
WHIP	1.25	.94

Recent News
	Reliever Elieser Hernandez elects free agency Published June 25th, 2024 via MSN Elieser Hernandez Elects Free Agency After Struggles in MLB; Potential Pitching Depth for Teams Published June 25th, 2024 via BVM Sports Elieser Hernandez: Elects free agency Published June 25th, 2024 via CBS Sports Brewers' Elieser Hernandez: Reporting to Triple-A Published June 24th, 2024 via CBS Sports Brewers' Elieser Hernandez: DFA'd by Milwaukee Published June 19th, 2024 via CBS Sports Why Elieser Hernandez won't survive the Brewers roster past MLB trade deadline Published June 16th, 2024 via BVM Sports Milwaukee Brewers boost pitching staff with signing of versatile pitcher Elieser Hernandez Published June 9th, 2024 via BVM Sports Milwaukee Brewers Sign Elieser Hernandez, Option James Meeker, and DL Hall Injury Update Published June 8th, 2024 via BVM Sports	Guardians Pitcher Cade Smith Reflects On His MLB Debut \| Home Grown Published June 27th, 2024 via BVM Sports Cade Smith's Fastball, Examined Published June 27th, 2024 via FanGraphs How 'next man up' mentality helps Cade Smith thrive with Guardians Published June 23rd, 2024 via Sportsnet.ca Abbotsford's Cade Smith named to Team Canada for World Baseball Classic Published June 8th, 2024 via Abbotsford News Guardians' Cade Smith: Tagged with loss Friday Published June 7th, 2024 via CBS Sports Guardians' Cade Smith: Secures another win Published June 5th, 2024 via CBS Sports Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Cade Smith throws to first base to hold Kansas City Royals\' Bobby Witt Jr. on the ... Published June 3rd, 2024 via The Gazette Guardians' Cade Smith: Collects second win Published May 29th, 2024 via CBS Sports

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