{"id":4959,"date":"2011-09-27T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2011-09-27T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:39:12","slug":"golden-sombrero-chris-parmelee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4959","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sombrero: Chris Parmelee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chrisparmaleegoldensombrero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4961\" title=\"chrisparmaleegoldensombrero\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chrisparmaleegoldensombrero-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chrisparmaleegoldensombrero-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chrisparmaleegoldensombrero.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 1: <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/parmech01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Chris  Parmelee<\/a><\/strong> struck out swinging against <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/huffda01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">David  Huff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 4: <\/strong>struck out swinging against Huff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 6: <\/strong>called out on strikes against David Huff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 7: <\/strong>struck out swinging against <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/putnaza01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Zach  Putnam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Line: <\/strong>0-for-4, 4 K<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes: <\/strong>Despite being selected by the Twins in the first-round of the 2006 draft, Parmelee didn\u2019t have a breakout season until 2010 when he slashed .285\/.356\/.401 across three levels.\u00a0 After posting an .801 OPS this season for Double-A New Britain, the left-handed hitting first baseman has made the most of his chances since making his big league debut on September 6: In 80 plate-appearances, Parmelee has posted an .968 OPS that includes a 13\/10 K\/BB rate.\u00a0 That ratio became slightly skewed on Saturday, however, when he recorded the first golden sombrero of his career against the Tribe.\u00a0 If he wants to be the Twins\u2019 first baseman of the future, he will have to show 20+ home run power across a full season \u2013 something that he\u2019s yet to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total 2011 Sombreros: <\/strong>123<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 1: Chris Parmelee struck out swinging against David Huff Top 4: struck out swinging against Huff Top 6: called out on strikes against David Huff Top 7: struck out swinging against Zach Putnam Final Line: 0-for-4, 4 K Notes: Despite being selected by the Twins in the first-round of the 2006 draft, Parmelee didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,2034,6,16,11,13,10,14,1],"tags":[2779,2780,654,2781,688,2518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}