Rockies sign Kyle Parker for $1.4 million

Now what to do? (I’m bored)

goes to the wire

besides Parker and Tago?

Also Colorado Prep Kevin Gausman is heading to LSU with Eades.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/08/nationals-sign-bryce-harper.html

Parker’s family took out an insurance policy that cost $25,000 to protect from injury

On how it’s possible for a kid to be a student athlete, and also be paid to be a professional athlete. You’d think with all these stories about guys like Reggie Bush taking money from agents and stuff while still in school, that a kid having an agent and signing a million plus dollar contract violates some type of NCAA regulations….but apparently not(I know for college basketball players, the moment they sign an agent, they lose all eligibility to return and play college basketball). Just seems hypocritical to me.

I also have a cousin who is on a golf scholarship, and he was telling me how the school prevents him from even having a job….because in a sense, the school is paying for his education, so they demand that all his time be spent either on school, or on the sport which he is on scholarship for.

Particularly if it gets reduced due to him sticking with football.

I was hoping the Rox would not overpay Parker. I watched him during
the NCAA’s & wasn’t particularly impressed. Big players should step
up during big games, and he didn’t do much.

I’ll give the Rockies scouts, who have a good track record in recent years,
the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I do have some doubts about
Parker’s skills.

As a pitcher, White said Lee is a better all-around athlete than either Kershaw or Chad Billingsley, two recent first-round picks (2006 and 2004, respectively) who are now mainstays in the Dodgers’ starting rotation.

“He has an absolutely picture-perfect delivery and excellent arm action,’’ White said.”He is as pure as any pitcher I have ever seen. He has power stuff like Kershaw and Billingsley, but when those guys were younger, they would almost fight through a wall sometimes and try to overpower somebody, but they have grown and learned how to pitch more than just throw and be more effective with their pitch counts.

“I think Lee at the same age has a better feel for how to pitch than Chad or Clayton, and I don’t mean that to disparage them at all.’’

White said Lee’s fastball touches 95 mph, but that he normally pitches in the 89-90 range, has a good breaking ball and a great changeup.

LOVE IT!!