So What Do We Think About Jordan Parraz?
by Freneau on Mar 18, 2010 11:56 PM EDT
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Thoughts?
Schaum has him as the 16th rated prospect in the system. The Royal Tower has him at #11, and Darren here at RR, had him at #12.
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by Sweep_the_Leg on Mar 19, 2010 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Another Shane Costa basically.
Marginal starter for right field. Or you could pay Ankiel millions instead let him play center instead of right field.
Go Royals!
ok
pods (1.75 M) and ankiel (3.25 M) are just 6.25 times what Costa+Parraz would be. gotta be fair to dayton
this is no time for accuracy, will.
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Shane Costa without the stigma of being drafted by Baird
which means a potential decent 0-3 stopgap type player who should be dropped once he starts to get expensive.
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I don't know much about his defense
but his bat has progressed fairly steadily after he got out of Houston’s system. (Maybe the Royals can at least develop prospects better than ONE other organization out there.) He’s reaching his peak age, so I’d say another solid 2/3 of a season at Omaha, with a September call up. Probably replaces Ankiel or Podsednik for 2011. He probably maxes out as Teahen with better on-base skills and maybe a little more versatile (he has played some CF in the minors).
I’d be happy with a 2011 outfield of DDJ, Maier, and Parraz. Dayton, however, will likely exercise his club option on Scott Pods. Oh goody.
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His defense...
His range seems reasonable — not great, not bad. It plays. His arm is a cannon.
WTF, self?
Actually there are so many 1 war outfielders available that
1 WAR outfielders are basically replacement level right now. Not a very good idea to pay them more then the minimum.
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or 12 million a year for a negative WAR outfielder
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by Jeff Zimmerman on Mar 19, 2010 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions
I think he projects as maybe a 4th OFer
But given the failure rate of prospects (and he isn’t exactly a top prospect), he probably won’t ever succeed at that low level. But anything is possible.
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I think he's a 4th OF'r also
I’ve never seen him take BP but from what I’ve read he has above average power that doesn’t translate into games. I wasn’t overly impressed by his athleticism when I saw him last season but he also had hamstring problems last year. He’s got a good arm. I’ll be seeing him quite a bit this season in Omaha this year.
I would say ceiling offensively very similar to DDJ 280’s good OBP and limited power since it doesn’t translate much and defensively alot like Teahen in the OF.
Who knows though we’ll see if last season was a fluke. I’ve got him at #15 but my list is all over the board. I’ll be posting video this year of guys that come thru Omaha.
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Probably a 4th OF
With a chance to have a breakout year if given the chance. Not unlike say Matt Diaz.
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David Lough had a couple singles and a walk in the ORoyals first Spring Game Thurs.
Omaha won 7-2. I hope the plan is to move Lough to Omaha and hopefully let him play CF but it’ll probably be Dyson in CF and Lough at one of the corner OF spots with Parraz.
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Just what everyone else said
stunningly good move for Dayton.
yes, picking up a maybe-4th outfielder in rule 5 from the one organzation that might be worse than the Royals qualifies as “stunningly good” for Our Man In Charge.
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Wasn't Rule 5 they traded him for Tyler Lumsden
which is actually better because Lumsden was garbage. I don’t know what the Astros were thinking. It was a really really good move
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I wonder were he would rank in the Stros system?
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by Jeff Zimmerman on Mar 19, 2010 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
his MLE from minorleaguesplits has him at .273/.343/.402
(i know, MLE’s aren’t great) but that’s a pretty good line, considering.
his career totalzone from milsplits is net positive for RF and slightly negative for CF, which bodes well for at least being a good/decent RF’er.
http://www.minorleaguesplits.com/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?pl=445199
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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Mar 19, 2010 3:12 PM EDT reply actions
Jordan Parraz, Jordan Parraz...
Oh yeah. Until a few weeks ago, I didn’t even know who this guy was. But he’s somewhere in there, mixing it up.
by fakedaytonmoore on Mar 19, 2010 3:28 PM EDT reply actions
If he has the moxie, maybe
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Mar 20, 2010 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Future ALL STAR!
(no one is projecting that so I might as well) He will be an AS type player for the Royals for future generations. He has a .300+ type hit tool, 30+ HR power tool, cannon for the arm, will steal 20+ bases, and exceptional +30 UZR defense.
This is all projection of course, but he will be a GREAT player.
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Parraz strikes me as a guy who had a career year
in 2009 but will be a 4A OF for his career. I still don’t trust the Royals to give Parraz a chance to play regularly in RF even if he does put up good numbers. I expect Parraz to have an ordinary year at Omaha. His prospect status will disappoint us by end of 2010. Would love to be wrong but it is the Royals remember.
This will be his age 25 season
And he is just reaching AAA. His numbers are nice without being all that great apart from last year.
He’s a nice body, he could do a better job than Jose. But really, he doesn’t look anything more than a bench guy on anything other than a bad team.
he was a late 3rd round pick
So it’s not like no one ever thought Parraz had skills before he started tearing up AA last spring. If Moore thinks Podsednik can play CF in a pinch, Parraz probably will be the first OF called up when one of the four guys on the big club gets hurt. (If Pods can only play left, then Anderson might get the call instead, even though he’s pretty clearly a 4-A guy.)
I doubt BA goes to Omaha on assignment
he seems to be talking about pitching for some reason unless he was jokin around
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