Jose Parra  
Starting Pitcher | Cleveland Lions

Pitching
I love Parra's sinker. This thing plummets like a rock at 59 feet. His slider is sharp and breaks both horizontally and vertically. Parra can get into trouble with walks, and there's concern about him being able to maintain his stuff over the whole season. He can hit 90 MPH but is too smart to try to get his fastball past most hitters. He's almost as effective against righthanders as he is versus lefthanders.

Defense & Hitting
A decent fielder, Parra is quick around the mound and has good instincts. He's reasonably quick to the plate but needs to vary his pickoff moves. Good baserunners appeared to time him last year. Parra is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Parra has some pop in his swing.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
1998 TEX 73 70 74 70 56 51 50 52 51 50 0 77 65 0 0 0 23 3 Overhand DL 0 5 17 59 285
1999 BOS 74 72 81 73 56 51 50 52 51 53 0 84 65 0 0 0 24 4 Overhand Active 0 0 0 69 307
2000 BOS 74 76 81 76 56 51 50 52 51 53 0 89 65 0 0 0 25 5 Overhand Active 0 0 0 73 317
2001 BOS 78 80 81 80 56 51 50 52 51 53 0 89 72 0 0 0 26 6 Overhand Active 0 0 0 79 336
2002 BOS 80 84 81 72 56 51 50 52 51 55 0 91 76 0 0 0 27 7 Overhand Active 0 0 0 64 341
2003 BOS 80 84 81 72 56 51 50 52 51 55 0 91 78 0 0 0 28 8 Overhand Active 0 0 0 75 342
2004 BOS 79 84 81 74 56 51 50 52 51 55 0 93 80 0 0 0 29 9 Overhand Active 0 0 0 76 345
2005 BOS 78 84 81 78 56 51 50 52 51 57 0 93 80 0 0 0 30 10 Overhand Active 0 0 0 79 350
2006 BOS 77 84 81 79 56 51 50 52 51 58 0 93 81 0 0 0 31 11 Overhand Active 0 0 0 80 350
2007 CLE 80 84 81 80 56 51 50 52 51 58 0 94 81 0 0 0 32 12 Overhand Active 0 0 0 78 355
2008 CLE 80 84 81 79 56 51 50 52 51 58 0 95 81 0 0 0 33 13 Overhand Active 0 0 0 77 353
2009 CLE 80 84 81 80 56 51 50 52 51 58 0 95 81 0 0 0 34 14 Overhand Active 0 0 0 78 353
2010 CLE 80 82 81 80 56 51 50 52 51 58 0 95 82 0 0 0 35 15 Overhand Active 0 0 0 81 351
Ratings Delta     -2                     +1       +1 +1           +3 -2
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.