I tried to resist, but when strategy fails there is always plan B to make me feel better about my team. Going with:
1969 Phil Niekro - Braves - $9,168,825 ($65,557,942)
mostly because I can now name my team to "celebrate" a musical genre which dominated a small portion of the timeline covered in this draft.
We will be known as "P Niek! at the Disco"