18.2 -- Chase Headley CI

Same strategy as my last pick, upside and ability to contribute to all 5 categories. I'm not too worried about him losing time to A-Rod, but am a bit worried about injury concerns. For the 18th round it's worth a flier though, as he shouldn't hurt me in any categories.

Team
C - Evan Gattis (9.107)
1B - Anthony Rizzo (2.13)
2B - Dee Gordon (5.59)
3B - Matt Carpenter (16.182)
MI - Rougned Odor (17.203)
CI - Chase Headley (18.206)
OF - Jose Bautista (1.11)
OF - Yoenis Cespedes (6.62)
OF - Jay Bruce (8.86)
OF - Rusney Castillo (10.110)
OF - Alex Gordon (11.131)
UTIL - Melky Cabrera (14.158)
P - Madison Bumgarner (3.35)
P - Corey Kluber (4.38)
P - Colin McHugh (15.179)
P - Greg Holland (7.83)
P - David Robertson (12.134)
P - Koji Uehara (13.155)

Only bat I am missing at this point is a shortstop. I have my offensive projections at 232HR, 907R, 881RBI, 145SB, 0.266AVG

With UT to go I have 908 Runs, 201 HR, 853 RBI, 131 SB and 277 AVG. Better than I expected but still a ways off of competing for 1st.

18.3 Justin Verlander

Wondering what his ceiling is at this point? Either way, I think he is still a decent 4th SP.

Rick Porcello

I'll take Adam Eaton. Bit of a black hole for power, but he'll score 100 at the top of that lineup and help my BA while giving me about 20 SBs. Helps me with a lot of weaknesses.

Side bet says he score under 100, in fact Ill give you 90. Not hating on your pick, as he is a nice late round OF/speed choice. I just think 100 is very optimistic.

Luke Gregorson, RP Hou

i checked that one like 3 times too so if he's taken then i throw my hands up in disgust at myself

OF Michael Bourn

Michael Cuddyer, NYM, CI

Interesting. Scored 76 in 123 games last year and the lineup behind him is highly improved. I'll give you that there's some injury history and that we could see his OBP go down if BABIP reduces, but he has a pretty extensive history of insane BABIPs with good speed and high LD%, so I don't know that it's right to expect it to.

If you gave me a minimum games played of 145, I'd snap accept 90.

I put Cuddyer in your OF and moved Harrison to CI since we're using a 20 game eligibility requirement. Cuddyer only had 17 games total at 1B/3B. No big deal

Rajai Davis

Yeah that is who I should have taken for cheap speed instead of Bourn. Nuts.

18.10 Kennys Vargas

Very happy he made it back to me, will fit very well in my Util slot

18.11 Mike Napoli (UT spot)

Decent power, good lineup .. and if it doesn't work out hitting the WW to replace a UT guy is not a huge dela

Once it gets past me at 19.2 .. I will just need a catcher and two pitchers. I am going out of town a week on vacation and leaving first thing tomorrow morning.

I will entrust NDFan to pick the highest reasonable starting pitchers (guys that have working arms) in rounds 20/21 per NFBC ADP, and the same for catcher in round 22. Sorry to bail but I don't want to hold you guys up

18.12 - Chris Owings SS ARI

Using him to fill my MI spot which I totally forgot about. He doesn't walk at all, but he hit 12 home runs and had over a .300 average in triple A. He will play pretty much every day for the D-backs, and with potential 20 stolen base speed, I'll take a flyer on him over what's left of the middle infielders.

19.1 - CJ Cron DH LAA

I'm a pretty die hard Angels fan, and I love that this guy will be getting a fair amount of playing time since somewhere along the way the Halos lost a "power hitting" outfielder. Cron has legit power to all fields, and he I'm betting that he will be at DH or 1b (when old man Pujols gets tired) a majority of the time, with Joyce or Cowgill splitting time in left depending on opposing pitching handedness. Cron has 25 to 30 home run potential, and won't kill you with a low average, probably hitting somewhere around .270 with a full time playing spot.

sniped on Owings, nice pick sir

19.2 Francisco Liriano

19.3 Andrew Cashner

I want to take a closer, but don't think I can pass up Cashner here

19.4 Jenrry Mejia

19.5 Carl Crawford (Mookie Betts to MI)

Mookie doesn't qualify at MI, I don't think.

14 games at 2B...depends where you're playing.