1st Round - 26th Overall Pick - Colorado Rockies - OF - Kyle Parker

11. Kyle Parker – Clemson – junior… 2008 as a freshman: .303, 14-HR, 50-RBI… 2009: .255, 12-HR, 52-RBI…


11-5 from www.collegebaseballblog.com: named the 76th top college player

3-18 from: - http://collegebaseball360.com/2010/03/18/two-sport-report-week-2 - Kyle Parker – Clemson - 6’1-200 – Football: QB & Baseball: OF - Parker, a junior, leads the team with a .424 BA, with 8 HR and 19 RBI through 16 games. He’s also 3-4 in stolen bases this season. Parker passed for 2,526 yards with 20 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 2009. Clemson finished 9-5 last season beating Kentucky 21-13 in the Music City Bowl.



3-27 from: - http://mlbbonusbaby.com: - Kyle Parker, OF, Clemson - Parker has gotten a lot of national interest, mainly because he even brings along the interest of college football fans. Clemson’s quarterback in his down time (yes, I said it), he brings premium athleticism in a class very short on impact college bats. He’s also simply hitting the ball when others aren’t, and he’s on his way up. However, there are still questions about how much he wants to play football in the fall, which will impact his signability, making him miss my mock.

5-11 from: - http://thecollegebaseballblog.com/2010/05/10/acc-players-of-the-week-23 - Clemson junior outfielder/first baseman Kyle Parker has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week. Parker went 10-for-16 (.625) with five doubles, one homer, seven RBIs, seven runs, five walks, one hit-by-pitch, a 1.125 slugging percentage, and a .727 on-base percentage in leading Clemson to a 4-0 record May 3-9. The Jacksonville, Fla., junior totaled at least one run, one hit, one RBI, one extra-base hit, and one walk in each of the four games and had three three-hit games. Parker’s biggest hit of the week came on Sunday at Maryland, when he hit a three-run homer with two outs in the sixth inning to give Clemson a 7-5 lead (the eventual final score). On the season, he is hitting .392 with 17 homers, 10 doubles, 50 RBIs, 58 runs, a .759 slugging percentage, and a .519 on-base percentage in 45 games.

5-21 from: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=10931 - Parker doubles as the starting quarterback for the football team, but his pro future is in baseball thanks to as much raw power as any college hitter available. He has a classic right-field package in terms of tools, but some worry about his ability to hit for average and how his remaining eligibility with effect his bonus demands. Michael Choice (UT Arlington) has raw power just a tick below Parker, but he has the same right-field profile with significantly better all-around tools. A second-round pick by the Red Sox out of high school three years ago, first baseman Hunter Morris (Auburn) will go somewhere around there again, maybe a bit higher, and is among the Division I leaders with 20 home runs.

5-28 from: - http://www.deepleagues.com/?p=1727 - Parker is an outfielder whose strength is at the plate. He has shown consistent power against top competition throughout his college career, but after hitting .255 in 2009, Parker did not seem like a legitimate candidate to justify a first round selection. Nevertheless, Parker raised his average this season to .373 and hit 18 home runs. Ironically, the two concerns scouts have about Parker are: (1) athleticism and (2) arm strength. Both weaknesses seem difficult to believe. In terms of athleticism, Parker is the only college athlete to ever hit 15 home runs and throw 20 touchdowns in the same season. It’s also surprising scouts would be concerned a D1 quarterback lacks the arm strength to play professional baseball.

5-28 from: - http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b4kdh - Kyle Parker, Clemson: While most may know him as Clemson's quarterback, he's been making a strong name for himself as a hitter this spring. He's shown power in the past, but this year, he's put it all together with a better approach and an ability to hit for average as well. Some parts of his game are raw, but if he were to focus only on baseball, he could shorten the learning curve. He's got some signing leverage with years of football eligibility remaining, but that probably won't prevent a team from taking him in the first 50 picks.

5-30 from: - http://www.mlbbonusbaby.com - -After seeing Kyle Parker a number of weeks ago, I immediately thought of him as a mistake hitter. He just didn't do much of anything against quality pitches. It seems my thought in a one-game view of him is actually the label that some scouts have given him. He doesn't have the elite tools some think he has, as well, only carrying an average arm, fringe-average range, average speed, and an average hit tool. His only above-average to plus tool is his power, which relies on hitting mistakes. His plate discipline is nice, but he borders on being passive at times, and with his signability questions, I gave him a 1C2 grade, pegging him as a league-average left fielder with a little more promise than some corner outfielders in the college game, but not enough for me to move off that grade.