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.
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.
Giants are hard to follow this year
Than dont follow them. Get off at the next stop. Real fans love weeding out the WS bandwagon folks.
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.
This is true. It’s a business, and teams and players treat it like that. A real fan is a blind fan.
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
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.
He could try Baltimore. i hear they need a DH that can hit 200
Time to move on.
Was this guy a wiz on defense or something? How do you manage to have a positive WAR with those kind of offensive numbers.
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.
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
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
Yeah, this frisco500 guy’s a jerk.
He does not represent all Giants fans
Even this year he was on track to lead the league in outfield assists. So yeah, his defense explains ir.
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 $$.
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.
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.
Any idea if he and Solarte had 45-day advance clauses?
What is a 45 day advance clause?
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
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.
Both Sandoval’s recruits are now off the team.
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.
This is great news! Only a few more weak sauce bums left to go. Who’s next ??
Haha yep. Parra is off to Washington to contend for a pennant.
Giants are the weaksauce in the equation
I wish I could have finished my career at 32 with 42mil in the bank.
Upgrade in Detroit as sad as that sounds.
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!
Do they still play baseball in Detroit? I hadn’t noticed.