Should I draft Richie Palacios or Drew Waters?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Richie Palacios or Drew Waters.

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	-0.24	-0.13
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	65.00	110.00
AB	117	252
R	15	33
H	27	59
2B	7	13
3B	0	3
HR	2	7
RBI	13	27
SB	3	10
K	22	82
BB	16	23
AVG	.231	.234
OBP	.326	.298
SLG	.342	.393
OPS	.668	.690

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Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	111.0	-1.0
AB	207	8
R	36	0
H	52	1
2B	8	0
3B	0	0
HR	4	0
RBI	18	0
SB	13	0
K	55	2
BB	27	0
AVG	.251	.125
OBP	.345	.125
SLG	.348	.125
OPS	.692	.250

Recent News
	Rays' Richie Palacios: Notches three hits Published July 3rd, 2024 via CBS Sports Rays' Richie Palacios: Hitting bench against lefty Published June 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Keibert Ruiz nabs Richie Palacios stealing second \| 06/29/2024 Published June 29th, 2024 via MLB.com Rays' Richie Palacios: Getting break Friday Published June 28th, 2024 via CBS Sports Rays' Richie Palacios: Active in win Published June 25th, 2024 via CBS Sports Richie Palacios scores on wild pitch Published June 24th, 2024 via Yahoo Canada Sports Rays' Richie Palacios: Swipes 11th bag Published June 23rd, 2024 via CBS Sports Rays' Richie Palacios: Sitting Saturday Published June 22nd, 2024 via CBS Sports	Royals Recall Carlos Hernández, Send Drew Waters to Triple-A Published June 19th, 2024 via MSN Drew Waters turns in stellar performance in Kansas City Royals' victory over the Rays Published June 19th, 2024 via Yahoo Movies Canada Why KC Royals optioned Drew Waters to Triple-A Omaha in latest roster shakeup Published June 18th, 2024 via Kansas City Star Royals send outfielder Drew Waters to Triple-A Omaha Published June 18th, 2024 via Kansas City Star Royals Recall Carlos Hernández, Send Drew Waters to Triple-A Published June 18th, 2024 via BVM Sports Royals Recall Carlos Hernández, Send Drew Waters to Triple-A Published June 18th, 2024 via Sports Illustrated Royals' Drew Waters: Heads back to minors Published June 18th, 2024 via CBS Sports Drew Waters' infield single in the 9th \| 06/13/2024 \| Kansas City Royals Published June 13th, 2024 via MLB.com

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