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Gerardo Parra Elects Free Agency

By Steve Adams | May 7, 2019 at 4:52pm CDT

The Giants announced today that veteran outfielder Gerardo Parra elected free agency after clearing waivers. He’s now free to sign with any club.

San Francisco picked up Parra, 32, on a minor league contract this offseason after he’d finished up a three-year contract with the Rockies. Parra did manage a .283 average and a .320 on-base percentage in his three years with Colorado, but he didn’t display much power in that time. He once rated as one of baseball’s premier defenders in the outfield corners and was still above-average over the past couple of seasons, though not to the extent of his peak levels.

The 2019 season has been a miserable one for Parra to this point. Through 97 plate appearances with the Giants, he’s mustered only a .197/.278/.267 batting line with a homer, three doubles and a pair of steals. Parra has never struck out at a 20 percent clip in any single season and has kept his strikeout rate below that threshold once again in 2019, but he also had one of the game’s worst hard-contact rates in 2018 and has seen that dip even further in 2019.

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  1. Jbigz12

    6 years ago

    When you can’t hack it in SF’s OF there’s only once place left to try. Cleveland! In all seriousness I can’t imagine him ever being a decent enough OFer to even get platoon bats at this point. Miami’s OF is atrocious so maybe they take a shot down there.

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    • Goku the Knowledgable One

      6 years ago

      Giants are hard to follow this year

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      • Frisco500

        6 years ago

        Than dont follow them. Get off at the next stop. Real fans love weeding out the WS bandwagon folks.

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        • stan lee the manly

          6 years ago

          It’s not against the rules to point out that your team is bad when they are bad. “Real fans” are allowed to do that.

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        • Codeeg

          6 years ago

          This is true. It’s a business, and teams and players treat it like that. A real fan is a blind fan.

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        • Goku the Knowledgable One

          6 years ago

          I’m not a Giants fan in any way shape or form.

          Can still say they’re hard to follow considering the revolving door in the OF

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        • Goku the Knowledgable One

          6 years ago

          Agreed.
          It’s a free market. Meaning if they put out a terrible product then I’m not obligated to follow.

          Funny how Frisco is so triggered by his team being awful.

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    • rephaim

      6 years ago

      He could try Baltimore. i hear they need a DH that can hit 200

      Reply
  2. JayRyder

    6 years ago

    Time to move on.

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  3. kenleyfornia2

    6 years ago

    Was this guy a wiz on defense or something? How do you manage to have a positive WAR with those kind of offensive numbers.

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    • Frisco500

      6 years ago

      Hahaha, doyer fans. Parra’s been in the NL West for 10 years. Off top if you cant recall watching him make some great plays over the years, you dont watch your own teams division. Imagine how little you know about the rest of the league. Classic.

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      • kenleyfornia2

        6 years ago

        I was talking his season you weirdo. So what someone did 8 years ago affects their perfomance today? Matt Kemp was a great player in 2011 so i should take that into consideration when judging 2019? I know Giant fans are obsessed with smearing the Dodgers as much as possible but you need to keep it in your pants. The fact you refer to them as the “Doyers” tells me all i need to know right there. The upper deck awaits you

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      • sleepyfloyd

        6 years ago

        Dude get off your freakin high horse. Giants fans are the worst when it comes to following only their team and not watching the league as awhile

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        • ABStract

          6 years ago

          Yeah, this frisco500 guy’s a jerk.
          He does not represent all Giants fans

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  4. Big glove502

    6 years ago

    Even this year he was on track to lead the league in outfield assists. So yeah, his defense explains ir.

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  5. Yep it is

    6 years ago

    He was awesome on defense in Arizona. He was really a better 4th outfielder type and then Colorado went all Colorado when he was a free agent with that kind of $$.

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    • thecoffinnail

      6 years ago

      Well he had that great half season in Milwaukee and I remember reading somewhere that he was CarGo’s best friend when Colorado signed him. But yeah, pretty much every baseball fan and pundit questioned that contract.

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      • rephaim

        6 years ago

        Hey whats wrong with carrying your friends to the ballpark? The only reason Parra and Solarte made the club is because Pablo can pitch. Pablo is ready to be the closer when we trade Smith away. Believe me, I would rather see Pablo than Mark Melonhead.

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  6. rxbrgr

    6 years ago

    Any idea if he and Solarte had 45-day advance clauses?

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    • SFGiants74

      6 years ago

      What is a 45 day advance clause?

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      • mfm420

        6 years ago

        sometimes, when a vet signs a minor league deal, there’s a clause in there that the contract, if picked up, does not become fully guaranteed until day 45 of when it was picked up.

        i.e., lets say parra signed a minor league deal for $4 million. giants select the contract on opening day. now’s he’s making 4 million. on day 30 of the deal, they release him.

        normally, that means the rest of $4 million is owed to him (minus prorated league minimum should another team sign him). however, with the 45 day rule in place, he’s only owed 45 days of pay (basically 1/4th of the deal, or 1 million), and the giants owe him nothing more.

        with how close they have been to the luxury tax line, can be important, since if the deal only pays out $1 million rather than $4 million, that’s all that counts towards the luxury cap

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        • rephaim

          6 years ago

          MFM,
          Absolute hog wash. The Giants are nowhere near the Luxury tax line. What qualifies you to pretend you are an agent? Any one of us could pull a more believable rabbit out of our behinds and be closer to the truth.

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  7. DougieJones

    6 years ago

    Both Sandoval’s recruits are now off the team.

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    • rephaim

      6 years ago

      Now Pablo has lost his two exercise jockeys. Don’t feel bad for Pablo, feel bad for the horse. I think we should start Pablo one game and make him pitch six innings. Couldn’t be worse than Pomegranate or Hole in his Head. Plus Pablo would lose twenty pounds. Let Pablo pitch. Melt the tonnage and extend his career.

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  8. Pickle_Britches

    6 years ago

    This is great news! Only a few more weak sauce bums left to go. Who’s next ??

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    • Goku the Knowledgable One

      6 years ago

      Haha yep. Parra is off to Washington to contend for a pennant.

      Giants are the weaksauce in the equation

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  9. TJECK109

    6 years ago

    I wish I could have finished my career at 32 with 42mil in the bank.

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  10. YakAttack

    6 years ago

    Upgrade in Detroit as sad as that sounds.

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    • BobSacamano

      6 years ago

      I agree. I had hope for Jacoby; but this has gone on long enough. Since they obviously don’t care about production, get Granderson back for the fans. & I don’t mean that as a negative towards Curtis!

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      • rephaim

        6 years ago

        Do they still play baseball in Detroit? I hadn’t noticed.

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