Should I draft Zach McKinstry or Santiago Espinal?

See our analysis of the choice to draft Zach McKinstry or Santiago Espinal.

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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DET · 3B,RF,LF,SS,2B

CIN · 2B,3B

Batting
2024 Preseason Projections
Draft Value	-0.01	-0.06
ADP	Undrafted	Undrafted
PROJ	121.00	105.00
AB	268	208
R	34	26
H	60	54
2B	12	11
3B	3	0
HR	5	2
RBI	25	21
SB	7	2
K	64	32
BB	26	17
AVG	.224	.260
OBP	.298	.322
SLG	.347	.341
OPS	.645	.663

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Batting
Season Statistics
PROJ	33.0	79.0
AB	130	172
R	10	13
H	24	33
2B	4	3
3B	2	0
HR	2	4
RBI	10	21
SB	4	7
K	39	22
BB	10	12
AVG	.185	.192
OBP	.247	.239
SLG	.292	.279
OPS	.539	.518

Recent News
	Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Absent from starting nine Published July 2nd, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Hitting bench Sunday Published June 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers lineup: Zach McKinstry at shortstop Saturday night Published June 29th, 2024 via MLive.com Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Riding pine Friday Published June 28th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Sitting against righty Wednesday Published June 26th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Idle against lefty Published June 25th, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers' Zach McKinstry: Goes deep in easy win Published June 23rd, 2024 via CBS Sports Tigers lineup: Akil Baddoo, Zach McKinstry starting series finale Published June 23rd, 2024 via MLive.com	Reds' Santiago Espinal: Sitting in second straight game Published June 30th, 2024 via CBS Sports Reds' Santiago Espinal: Gets another turn at 3B Published June 27th, 2024 via CBS Sports Santiago Espinal's barehanded play \| 06/26/2024 \| Cincinnati Reds Published June 26th, 2024 via MLB.com Reds' Santiago Espinal: Playing time trending upward Published June 24th, 2024 via CBS Sports Santiago Espinal's RBI single \| 06/23/2024 \| Cincinnati Reds Published June 23rd, 2024 via MLB.com Cincinnati Reds Roster Update: Santiago Espinal's Survival amidst Noelvi Marte's Return Published June 22nd, 2024 via BVM Sports How Santiago Espinal could survive Reds' roster crunch upon Noelvi Marte's return Published June 22nd, 2024 via Blog Red Machine Reds' Santiago Espinal: Gets another start Published June 20th, 2024 via CBS Sports

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