Should I draft Richie Palacios or Jake Cave?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Richie Palacios or Jake Cave.

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	-0.30
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	65.00	54.00
AB	117	129
R	15	15
H	27	29
2B	7	7
3B	0	1
HR	2	4
RBI	13	14
SB	3	1
K	22	39
BB	16	13
AVG	.231	.225
OBP	.326	.301
SLG	.342	.388
OPS	.668	.688

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Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	78.0	22.0
AB	148	79
R	25	11
H	39	20
2B	4	1
3B	0	2
HR	4	0
RBI	12	5
SB	9	1
K	43	25
BB	20	5
AVG	.264	.253
OBP	.357	.294
SLG	.372	.317
OPS	.728	.611

Recent News
	Rays' Richie Palacios Equals Brother, Uncle With First Career Walk-Off Hit Published May 31st, 2024 via Sports Illustrated Richie Palacios' walk-off single \| 05/30/2024 Published May 30th, 2024 via MLB.com Jose Siri ties it in 9th with homer, Richie Palacios hits walk-off RBI in 12th as Rays beat A's 6-5 Published May 30th, 2024 via The Santa Rosa Press Democrat Richie Palacios hits walk-off single as Rays win in 12 Published May 30th, 2024 via MLB.com Richie Palacios lifts Rays to second straight walkoff win over A's Published May 30th, 2024 via Tampa Bay Times Rays' Richie Palacios: Resting against lefty Published May 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Why the Rays turned to Richie Palacios at shortstop in a pinch Sunday Published May 26th, 2024 via Tampa Bay Times Rays' Richie Palacios: Heading to bench Sunday Published May 26th, 2024 via CBS Sports	Rockies' Jake Cave: Losing work to Sean Bouchard Published May 29th, 2024 via CBS Sports Rockies' Jake Cave: Sitting vs. southpaw Published May 26th, 2024 via CBS Sports Jake Cave out of lineup Sunday - Jake Cave News Published May 26th, 2024 via FantasyPros Jake Cave in lineup Saturday Published May 25th, 2024 via FantasyPros Rockies' Jake Cave: Idle against lefty Published May 24th, 2024 via CBS Sports Jake Cave's RBI single in the 11th \| 05/23/2024 Published May 23rd, 2024 via MLB.com Rockies' Jake Cave: Hitting bench Wednesday Published May 22nd, 2024 via CBS Sports Jake Cave nearly robs home run with superb catch \| 05/19/2024 Published May 19th, 2024 via MLB.com

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