Should I draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Ryan McMahon?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Ryan McMahon.

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

Ke'Bryan Hayes

Change Player

Ryan McMahon

Change Player

PIT · 3B

COL · 3B,2B

Batting
2024 Preseason Projections
Draft Value	2.75	1.82
ADP	210.93	241.29
PROJ	307.00	246.00
AB	553	512
R	70	65
H	140	122
2B	30	25
3B	6	2
HR	18	21
RBI	64	64
SB	14	5
K	117	162
BB	40	60
AVG	.253	.238
OBP	.303	.324
SLG	.427	.418
OPS	.730	.742

Most Recent and Popular Comparisons
	Draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Nolan Arenado Draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Max Muncy Draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Alec Bohm Draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Eugenio Suarez Draft Ke'Bryan Hayes or Bryson Stott	Draft Ryan McMahon or Michael Conforto Draft Ryan McMahon or Maikel Garcia Draft Ryan McMahon or Luis Garcia Draft Ryan McMahon or Andrew Vaughn Draft Ryan McMahon or Esteury Ruiz

Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	88.0	169.0
AB	220	307
R	24	44
H	51	83
2B	8	17
3B	0	0
HR	3	14
RBI	19	42
SB	6	3
K	48	99
BB	19	37
AVG	.232	.270
OBP	.297	.349
SLG	.309	.463
OPS	.606	.811

Recent News
	Pirates' Ke'Bryan Hayes: Checking out of starting nine Published June 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Ke'Bryan Hayes' RBI double \| 06/28/2024 \| Pittsburgh Pirates Published June 28th, 2024 via MLB.com Ke'Bryan Hayes To Resume Baseball Activities On Monday Published June 28th, 2024 via MSN Pirates' Ke'Bryan Hayes: Getting day off Tuesday Published June 25th, 2024 via CBS Sports Even With Good Moment, Ke'Bryan Hayes Frustrated Again Published June 23rd, 2024 via MSN Ke'Bryan Hayes' RBI single \| 06/21/2024 \| Pittsburgh Pirates Published June 21st, 2024 via MLB.com Ke'Bryan Hayes: Move Down the Batting Order for Better Team Performance Published June 21st, 2024 via BVM Sports Ke'Bryan Hayes chasing the confidence Bryan Reynolds displaying at the plate for Pirates Published June 20th, 2024 via TribLIVE	Ryan McMahon scores on a sac fly after review \| 06/30/2024 Published June 30th, 2024 via MLB.com Ryan McMahon Props: June 29, Rockies vs. White Sox Published June 29th, 2024 via For The Win Yankees Trade Proposal Sends $70 Million Infielder to NY in 3-Player Swap Published June 28th, 2024 via Heavy.com MLB Trade Rumors: Yankees Target Rockies' Ryan McMahon & Elias Díaz for Playoff Boost Published June 27th, 2024 via BVM Sports Spencer Arrighetti strikes out Ryan McMahon \| 06/26/2024 Published June 26th, 2024 via MLB.com Ryan McMahon needs push to be All-Star finalist at third base Published June 26th, 2024 via MLB.com Ryan McMahon Shines as Rockies' All-Star Contender in 2025 Playoff Push Published June 26th, 2024 via BVM Sports Ryan McMahon Could Be An All-Star Published June 26th, 2024 via Last Word On Sports

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