KNOCK, KNOCK! Who’s there? CarGo! CarGo who? CarGo vrooooooooom! That made absolutely no sense. Did it need a prop to explain it? Who’s writing your standup, Carrot Top? It’s true, my stand-up goes over about as well as Michael Richards’ did back in the day. I’ll never look at Cosmo Kramer the same way again…but enough about maniacal, racist tirades, come join Sky from Razzball fantasy football as we look at Carlos Gomez and whether his current ADP of 224 is appropriate or if we’ve got a discount on our hands for 2013 fantasy baseball…
So in all truthiness, the lead in knock, knock joke did have a purpose but I did what I’m best at: getting myself off track. Now that we’ve Thomas the Train’d this mo’fo back into shape, let’s get to the dealio. There’s more than one CarGo in the fantasy baseball but only one that you really know. His name is Carlos Gonzalez. He plays for the Colorado Rockies, is a perennial threat to go 100/25/100/25 while batting .300 if he stays healthy, likes walks on the beach and Long Island Ice Teas. So with that out of the way, let’s take a look at what CarGo did in the second half of last year: 46/14/33/26 with a .278 average in 252 at-bats. Yeah, not bad, a little low on the average and RBIs for a typical CarGo year but the other numbers are in range…wait, I’m looking at the wrong CarGo. Someone needs to label their freights better! That’s Carlos Gomez’ second half slash line which he did in 74 games. Prorate that over 74 more games (which just means times it by two; we aren’t just fantasy sports experts, we’re math experts as well), you get 92/28/66/52. That’s a pretty sweet end line when you consider Justin Upton finished 19th in the Top 20 Outfielders For 2012 Fantasy Baseball. He did that with 17 homeruns, 67 RBI, 107 runs and 18 stolen bases to go with a .280 average. Looks like that CarGo part deux line could easily find it’s way into the cockles of Grey’s Razzball ranking heart by the end of the year if it happened. Of course, no one expects that line from Gomez in 2013 and I won’t either. But what I can see is a 80/15/60/25 season with a .260 average with plenty of room to go boom like he did in the second half of last year. In the end, in terms of discounts, most fantasy outfields are works in progress all year unless you draft the studs in the earlier rounds so it’s hard to say he’s discounted, per se. Personally, if I’m in need of steals with a little pop, CarGo2 gets interesting as a late OF nab, especially in deeper leagues. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go work on my stand-up routine.
