Need a free draft guide?

We'll consider this "helping out my fellow man, with the exception of those I'm closest to" as I waited until after our fantasy draft to post a link. No sense in giving anyone in my league a freebee, right?

Check out the impressive work at Sports Overdose as they took the pre-rankings for the major sites, averaged the information and broke it down into handy, bite-sized pieces. What swell people, huh?

That link will drop you off with the first basemen, but you can slice and dice the information by position or the exceptionally helpful mock draft.

As a bonus, the mock draft is structured in such a way that you can stick to your guns by not overpaying for pitching early.

Good luck, don't forget your draft time and never, ever pay for saves.

Your National League fantasy tip of the day

Two words - Edwin Encarnacion.

His numbers for the year - with time off for a stint in AAA because of a reported run-in with his manager and sub-par fielding in the bigs - read pretty well.

He's 43 for 149 (batting .290/slugging .352) with 3 homers, 19 runs and 23 RBI. Nothing to write home about, until you see that in the past month he's batting .338 with an OBP of .419 and slugging .508 (9 runs, 2 HR, 9 RBI).

You could do worse for a third baseman in the NL if you're in a pinch.

I only mention this because he went 4-for-4 tonight with a homer a run and 3 RBI. I look forward to seeing him on SportsCenter in the morning.

(Photo from: Cincinnati.Reds.MLB.com)