Should I draft Richie Palacios or Garrett Cooper?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Richie Palacios or Garrett Cooper.

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	-0.23
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	65.00	87.00
AB	117	188
R	15	23
H	27	47
2B	7	8
3B	0	1
HR	2	7
RBI	13	25
SB	3	0
K	22	56
BB	16	17
AVG	.231	.250
OBP	.326	.311
SLG	.342	.415
OPS	.668	.726

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Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	111.0	21.0
AB	207	107
R	36	6
H	52	22
2B	8	5
3B	0	1
HR	4	1
RBI	18	11
SB	13	0
K	55	35
BB	27	7
AVG	.251	.206
OBP	.345	.267
SLG	.348	.299
OPS	.692	.566

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	Red Sox News: Liam Hendriks injury update, Garrett Cooper signs with division rival Published June 26th, 2024 via BoSox Injection Orioles News & Notes: Garrett Cooper, Jackson Holliday, Cole Irvin Published June 25th, 2024 via BVM Sports Baltimore Orioles sign former Red Sox All-Star Garrett Cooper for first base depth Published June 25th, 2024 via BVM Sports Orioles sign Garrett Cooper to minor league contract Published June 25th, 2024 via BaltimoreBaseball.com Baltimore Orioles Boost Pitching Staff by Signing Former All-Star Garrett Cooper to Minor League Deal Published June 24th, 2024 via BVM Sports Orioles' Garrett Cooper: Signs minors deal with Orioles Published June 24th, 2024 via CBS Sports Garrett Cooper: Becomes free agent Published June 14th, 2024 via CBS Sports Red Sox's Garrett Cooper: Departs 40-man roster Published June 11th, 2024 via CBS Sports

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