G&T Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 There's already a thread on this in the Diamond Club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatScott82 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 aahh yes..every once in awhile we hear a name from that 2000 AL Central Champion 'kids can play' team. That was a fun season..hell i've been a Sox fan my whole life but that season got me addicted to White Sox baseball. And i've been addicted ever since. I hope Parque can find a team and move his way up back to the majors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 let's get him, he can be our 9th starter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaDoc Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Birmingham where James Andrews could monitor his progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 02:19 PM) let's get him, he can be our 9th starter. (Spewing on monitor) Yankees should offer him a long term deal as part of their "youth movement" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxfest Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Parque is all butter ......no chance! SOON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Parque signs a minor league deal with the Mariners and gets an invite to Spring Training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) Parque signs a minor league deal with the Mariners and gets an invite to Spring Training. Hell, we all get an invite to Spring training. Wait, they want him to play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Pratt Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Parque, who last pitched in the majors in 2003, has been living in Seattle. He moved there because he liked the city and had a brother in the area. He established a baseball academy that has turned into a profitable business. The school, Big League Edge, employs 30 instructors who work with about 400 advanced players per week. He was there one day last July when he discovered his arm finally had recovered from the shoulder problems that first surfaced while he was winning 13 games for Jerry Manuel's division-winning White Sox in 2000. Parque was standing on the mound when a junior-college prospect stung him with an attempt at a joke. "Oh, there's the has-been!" the kid called out. Parque invited him to try hitting against him. The first pitch he threw, perhaps with a little anger flashing through him, was an 82-m.p.h. fastball that blew past the startled hitter over the middle of the plate. "I hadn't thrown anything that hard in two years," Parque said. "I didn't really know what to think." Parque was throwing barely in the low-80s when he started Game 1 of the playoff series against Seattle in 2000. He eventually had surgery to repair his labrum and from 2001 to 2003 held together to work only 72 innings. He migrated from the White Sox to Tampa Bay and got out of baseball when he failed to land a job with Arizona in the spring of 2004. "To put it bluntly, my shoulder, after the surgery, just never came back," Parque told the Seattle Times. "It was garbage. Some days it would rain and there would be pain. Even on a good day, it was just a dull ache." Parque said he believes he tried to rush his comeback from surgery. He said the shoulder capsule that shrank during the operation needed years to stretch back out again. After that first fastball last July, Parque began playing catch regularly and was encouraged sufficiently to start working out seriously. He steadily gained velocity, climbing into the 85-88 m.p.h. range, he said. He tried out for a handful of teams and Seattle offered him a minor-league deal. "It's win-win for everyone," said Parque, who just turned 32. "I didn't leave baseball because I was too old or tired. I left because I got hurt. This was the first time I felt like my arm was back to normal." Parque is a huge long shot to win a job in spring training. The Mariners seem fairly set with Jeff Weaver, Felix Hernandez, Jarrod Washburn, Miguel Batista, Horacio Ramirez and Jake Woods, but Washburn and Ramirez have health questions of their own. If he can pitch well enough to start in the Triple-A rotation, Parque could surface early. His contract includes a clause that will allow him to go elsewhere if he is still in the minors after May. He can't wait to face hitters again. "I still have the competitive desire and the know-how," he said. "That part never left me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 there's a possibility he may catch on as a reliever. I didn't give him a chance, but what the hell, I like comeback stories and he worked his ass off for the Sox. It's not likely, but maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMonkey Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Parque was standing on the mound when a junior-college prospect stung him with an attempt at a joke. "Oh, there's the has-been!" the kid called out. Better to be a has-been than a never-was or never-will-be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLAK Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 From RotoWorld: Jim Parque began his comeback bid with two scoreless innings Sunday against the Giants. He allowed three hits, but all of them were singles, and he struck out three while walking none. Parque is a long shot to make the Mariners out of spring training, but it's believed he's willing to head to Triple-A for the beginning of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klaus kinski Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 That outing likely fueled by Adreneline-once that wears off I'm sure major leaguers will catch up with him quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLAK Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 The Royals beat Jim up yesterday. IP 1 H3 R3 ER3 BB1 K0 Non Roster invite Billy Butler took him long. So after 2 outings: ERA9.00 IP3 H6 R6 ER6 HR1 HB1 BB1 K3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 QUOTE(TLAK @ Mar 9, 2007 -> 06:55 AM) The Royals beat Jim up yesterday. IP 1 H3 R3 ER3 BB1 K0 Non Roster invite Billy Butler took him long. So after 2 outings: ERA9.00 IP3 H6 R6 ER6 HR1 HB1 BB1 K3 Wouldn't his stat like be... ERA9.00 IP3 H6 R3 ER3 HR1 HB1 BB1 K3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLAK Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 QUOTE(qwerty @ Mar 10, 2007 -> 02:47 AM) Wouldn't his stat like be... ERA9.00 IP3 H6 R3 ER3 HR1 HB1 BB1 K3 Yep, typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLAK Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 He gawn. From RotoWorld: Mariners reassigned LHP Jim Parque, RHP Carlos Alvarado, RHP Jesse Foppert, RHP Juan Sandoval, C Luis Oliveros and 3B Matt Tuiasosopo to minor league camp; optioned LHP Travis Blackley and LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith to Triple-A Tacoma. Parque surrendered nine runs in 3 2/3 innings to spoil his comeback bid this spring. Maybe he'll get a look if he can turn in a couple of strong months in Triple-A. And the White Sox helped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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