Fantasy baseball draft #2

I haven't watched ER in years but I decided to check in for the retrospective and the swan song on Thursday night. Coupled with Survivor, this meant that I'd be spending several consecutive hours sitting around not doing much. Perfect opportunity to participate in another fantasy baseball draft! I jumped onto ESPN and randomly joined a league with their standard settings: ten team mixed 5X5 draft. I got the first pick. Here's how it went.

1. Hanley Ramirez. Positional scarcity, steals, stud. What's not to like?
2. Dustin Pedroia. All of the above, plus now I at least own him in one league.
3. Lance Berkman. Solid, and I needed the most reliable power guy left on the board.
4. Matt Holliday. I think he is an outright steal with the 40th pick in the draft. People are acting like he's just going to die outside of Coors Field, and that is not happening.
5. Brandon Webb. As reliable as starters get.
6. David Ortiz. I thought this was a good spot to roll the dice on a return to form. If he gets hurt I can replace him with anyone since he is only eligible as a utility guy now.
7. Magglio Ordonez.
8. Joakim Soria. The Mexicutioner is probably the best nickname in baseball.
9. Jon Lester. He can absolutely win the Cy Young if the big 2008-09 innings pitched bump doesn't bite him.
10. Chris Young, OF, AZ. Solid 20-20 guy and I can handle his lower batting average.
11. Rich Harden. Rolling the dice for maximum return makes a ton of sense in these 10 team mixed leagues.
12. Victor Martinez. Stud or injury bust. I don't see a lot of middle ground.
13. Chone Figgins. 40 steals at a corner slot is nice.
14. Xavier Nady. He has to produce as a Yankee regular, right?
15. Ricky Nolasco. Breakout year coming up.
16. Kevin Gregg. Has been lights out, but I should handcuff him with Marmol now.
17. Carlos Guillen. Unsexy, solid player.
18. Shin-Soo Choo. I'm going with Matthew Berry on this one.
19. Chad Qualls. Great cheap closer.
20. Rickie Weeks. Always a chance he could put it all together, and if not backup middle infielder is an easy fill.
21. Carlos Marmol. A bit of a reach this early but I have the Cubs closers covered and I like having a high strikeout middle man to run out there every day. Should buzzard some wins and end up with saves as well.
22. Wandy Rodriguez. There were tons of decent fantasy 5th starter types left. I like the upside and I like the K rate.
23. Brad Ziegler. Steal. Joey Devine may be out for the year.
24. Elijah Dukes. More of that breakout upside I was looking for.
25. Johnny Cueto.

Obviously I was really aggressive with some of these picks, but if even half of them work out then my team will be absolutely stacked. It's a "just for fun" league with no prizes and nobody I know playing, but I figure since I had all my draft scouting done...why not?

I may sneak in one more draft before the weekend ends.