Should I draft Josh Naylor or Jordan Walker?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Josh Naylor or Jordan Walker.

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.

Change Players in Draft Analysis

Select Player to Draft

Strong Recommendation

Josh Naylor

Change Player

Jordan Walker

Change Player

CLE · 1B,DH

STL · RF

Batting
2024 Preseason Projections
Draft Value	2.83	1.61
ADP	128.58	153.68
PROJ	351.00	275.00
AB	507	489
R	60	64
H	144	132
2B	33	24
3B	0	2
HR	20	19
RBI	90	61
SB	7	12
K	83	128
BB	40	49
AVG	.284	.270
OBP	.339	.341
SLG	.468	.444
OPS	.806	.784

Most Recent and Popular Comparisons
	Draft Josh Naylor or Cedric Mullins Draft Josh Naylor or Spencer Torkelson Draft Josh Naylor or Oneil Cruz Draft Josh Naylor or Alec Bohm Draft Josh Naylor or Jarren Duran	Draft Jordan Walker or Adolis Garcia Draft Jordan Walker or Lane Thomas Draft Jordan Walker or Bryson Stott Draft Jordan Walker or Oneil Cruz Draft Jordan Walker or Anthony Volpe

Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	223.0	11.0
AB	289	58
R	45	4
H	70	9
2B	14	4
3B	0	1
HR	20	0
RBI	61	4
SB	3	0
K	60	18
BB	30	6
AVG	.242	.155
OBP	.321	.239
SLG	.498	.259
OPS	.819	.497

Recent News
	Josh Naylor Props: July 2, Guardians vs. White Sox Published July 2nd, 2024 via For The Win Josh Naylor Heating Up At The Plate Published July 1st, 2024 Josh Naylor Props: June 30, Guardians vs. Royals Published June 30th, 2024 via For The Win Ramirez homers, Josh Naylor two RBIs lead Guardians over Royals 7-2 Published June 29th, 2024 via The Associated Press Josh Naylor Props: June 29, Guardians vs. Royals Published June 29th, 2024 via For The Win Josh Naylor Missing Another Game Wednesday Published June 26th, 2024 Guardians' Josh Naylor: Absent from lineup versus righty Published June 26th, 2024 via CBS Sports Josh Naylor Sitting Against A Lefty Published June 25th, 2024	Dodgers give James Outman the Jordan Walker treatment with latest roster move Published June 28th, 2024 via MSN Jordan Walker records 2-hit, 2-RBI performance for Class AAA Memphis: Minor League Report Published June 28th, 2024 via St. Louis Post-Dispatch How Cardinals' Jordan Walker is using chess to help return to MLB Published June 24th, 2024 via Commercial Appeal St. Louis Cardinals' Jordan Walker on the Rise for Potential Return Amid Team Struggles Published June 12th, 2024 via BVM Sports Cardinals prospect Quinn Mathews deals, Jordan Walker homers, singles twice: Minor League Report Published June 12th, 2024 via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jordan Walker hits his second homer of the season Published June 12th, 2024 via MiLB.com Jordan Walker's bases-loaded triple sparks the Cardinals to a 7-5 win over the A's Published June 7th, 2024 via Yahoo Canada Shine On How are Jordan Walker and Victor Scott faring at Triple-A Memphis? Published June 7th, 2024 via MSN

New Seasons Now Available

Free Tools

Use our free tools to become a fantasy expert and dominate your league!

Get started in seconds
Sync unlimited leagues for free - no paywalls!
Customized for your league, roster and scoring settings
Support for football, baseball, basketball and hockey
Roto and point-based support
Live Draft Syncing
Draft decision analysis
Intuitive Mock Drafts
Insights on H2H matchups
Most scoring statistics supported
No manual entry required
Much, much more!!

Browser Extension