Was Carlos Febles Ever Good?

Until I hated watching him play. It’s our time!!!

[Also, Freneau, it’s fin de siecle.]

“Carlos Febles is the better member of Dos Carlos”

-Big Matt, circa 1999

But, yes, he sucked.

I don’t have much doubt that about whether he was good or not. (Not).

But I do wonder if he really was Carlos Manuel Febles, born May 24, 1976.

He’s always the first to mind.

And being high on his chances of succeeding. Maybe I was just high. I was in college at the time.

It’s an evil, evil power that makes people seem much better than they are.

Before I became aware that Yuni existed.

Just didn’t have enough of those moments. He was fun though.

and they were thought to have similar potential, other than Beltran was a year younger. After Feble’s first full season, with a .747 OPS, 10 HR’s in 453 AB’s as a 23 year old, he looked like he might be as valuable as Beltran. Brandon Phillips, at 25, finally put it together and had a similar season as Febles’s ‘99 campaign with an 88 OPS+ and .751 OPS. So at that point, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to have thought Carlos could have turned into an even better version of what Phillips became. And that would have been close to being as valuable as Beltran was.

I thought he was gone after 2002? 2003 was the year Berroa tore it up at shortstop and Desi Relaford got off to a fluke start at 2B. Wasn’t Mendy Lopez the backup?

It’s sad to think this was our only quality ballclub……in 18 years. Depressing. Is 10:30 in the morning to early to start drinking???

Which for some reason I clung onto as the next Carlos Febles although he wasn’t nearly as highly touted.

didnt have shit on bip roberts

Then again, I blame Neifi for just about everything that happened to the Royals during that stretch.

On the other hand, maybe having Neifi around is what made Febles look really good at the time. In 2002, Carlos F. had an OPS+ of 76….Neifi’s OPS+ was 44 (in 180 more PA’s! – and we paid 4.1 mil for that!).

Royals by newspaper in those days, so I thought he was good for a while. I was really surprised how quickly he disappeared. Now I see why.

thank you. I wondered myself- after the Balboni talks- how good our past Royals really were. I remember Febles being much better, but if he was much better I wondered why he didn’t stick around. And hence the post. Who’s next? Michael Tucker? Brent Mayne? Darryl Motley? Tom Goodwin anyone? Were they actually ever good? I don’t know, that’s for sure. I know I remember Jeff Montgomery being a lot worse than he actually was. This site has changed the way I look at players. Perception is one thing, but what do the “real” stats say?

was figured out by pitchers faster than Beltran- he had his Sophomore slump in the second half of his rookie season. He came back to play well in the first half of his second season, when he injured his shoulder and knee. (If my sometimes faulty memory is correct, it was on a collision with an outfielder) He came back and went great guns for about a week and a half and then re-tweaked his shoulder, and though he did not miss a game, I don’t think his shoulder was ever the same. His career triple slash when this happened was .270/.353/.405. I would take that any year at second. He also had nagging knee injuries the rest of his career after that, including a career ending one in the Red Sox org. after we cut bait.

He is a manager in the minors for the Red Sox now.