Bobby Parnell P R R 6' 3" 180 21 09-08-1984 Charleston Southern Univ.
Parnell was drafted by the Mets in the 9th round of the 2005 Draft, out of Charleston Southern University. Parnell pitched 3 years in college, with ERA’s of… 2003: 4.76… 2004: 6.82… 2005: 8.86. Many wondered why he was drafted at all, no less this high.
In 2005, Parnell pitched at Brooklyn, posting a 2-3 record and a 1.73 ERA. Baseball America ranks P Bobby Parnell in 2005 as the 20th top prospect in the league.
Parnell started the 2006 season in Hagerstown. Baseball America ranked him the 20th top prospect in the NY-Penn league. OnDeck has him the 10th ranked Mets prospect, and John Sickles gave him a C+ ratings and ranked him the 9th Mets prospect. 2006 was a bad year for Parnell. A strained oblique cost him spring training and he never got going. His arm strength is reported to be still there (92-94 mph) and he still has a projected future as an effective sinker-slider starter.
In 2007, Parnell was named to the 2007 Florida State League All-Star team (3-3, 3.25, 1.41, in 12 starts, 62 Ks 55.1 IP). Which earned him a promotion to Binghamton (5-5, 4.77, 1.63 in 17 starts).
In September 2007, Baseball America ranked Parnell as the 6th top Florida Stae league pitcher in ‘strikout percentage’, and 1st in the league in ‘groundout-to-floy out ratio”, adding the comments: “Parnell pitched the entire season at age 22 and made short work of the FSL. He wasn’t quite so successful in Double-A, but he did retain a high strikeout rate”.
In November 2007, both BA and Scouts.com named Parnell as the 10th top Mets prospect.
In December 2007, Jonathan Mayo/MLB.com wrote:
On the plus side, Parnell threw quite well in St. Lucie, with a 3.25 ERA and 62 K's in 55 1/3 innings. That earned him a promotion to Double-A, but the leap was not an easy one. He had a 4.77 ERA in 17 starts for Binghamton, though he finished the year by going 4-1 with a 3.24 ERA in six August starts (we'll ignore the September clunker). All told, his 136 K's in 144 IP topped the organization.
In late January 2007, Baseball America ranked Parnell as the 10th overall Mets prospect.
In February 2008, Baseball Prospectus awarded Parnell a 2-star rating and named him the 8th overall Mets prospect.
Also in February 2008, Rotoworld ranked Parnell as the #9 Mets prospect, saying:
Parnell, a 2005 ninth-round pick out of Charleston Southern, appeared on his way to becoming one of the Mets' top prospects when he opened last season with a 66/22 K/BB ratio and a 3.1:1 GB:FB ratio in the FSL. Too bad he couldn't keep it up in Double-A. Besides the higher walk total, he actually turned into a bit of a flyball pitcher in the Eastern League. He allowed nine homers in 17 starts for Binghamton after going without surrendering one in his 12 starts for St. Lucie. Parnell gets good movement on his low-90s fastball and occasionally shows a plus slider. Still, he's probably not going to cut it as a starter.
In March 2008, BA wrote an article on the Top 10 prospects to watch out for in 2008:
Robert Parnell, RHP
People look at the right-hander and see his power arsenal -- fastball/slider -- and the fact that his third pitch, a changeup, is behind the other two and say he belongs in the bullpen. He throws in the low- to mid-90s and can touch 97 mph, and there's little doubt that in a short relief role, he'd be in the upper-90s consistently. But here's the thing. Parnell can maintain his velocity deep into games and that's something that isn't easily found. So the Mets are inclined to leave him in a rotation, at least for now, so he can continue to work on all of his pitches and stay in the same routine. He'll do that in Binghamton, and perhaps after this year, if the changeup doesn't come around, a switch will be made
In 2008, Parnell went 12-8, 4.62 combined ofr Binghamton and New Orleans.
Parnell will have to be added to the 40-man roster by 11-20-08, or he will become eligible for the 2009 Rule V draft.
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