Player Name: John Parisi
School: Dowling College
Position: RHP
Player Name: John Parisi
School: Dowling College
Position: RHP
John is a 6’3″ 200 lb pitcher for the Golden Lions. He begins his delivery with his glove up high, covering his eyes reminsicent of Andy Pettitte, but he then drops the glove all the way down once he steps back. As he is coming to his balance point, he hunches his torso over and has his eyes set on the ground. He soon regains his focus and locks in on the batter. He has a violent delivery, with a near max effort throwing style. He delivers from a 3/4 arm angle. He has a nice, long stride but lands slightly open towards first base. Parisi’s follow-through is sound and finishes balanced.
In the March 11 game against New Haven he received the win for throwing three strong innings in relief. He worked mainly with a three-pitch mix and was throwing in the mid 80s.
In his first inning he struck out two and worked around a walk. He induced a popup on a sharp curveball that the batter couldn’t do anything with. He lost the zone on the next batter on a 3-1 walk, but bounced back by striking out the next two batters. The first came on a 1-2 curveball that he got a lefty to flail at. The second one was against a righty on a two-seam fastball that froze him, as it started off the outside corner but crept back on.
The second inning of work was very smooth. He induced a groundball to the first basemen in which he had the wherewithal the cover first on immediately. He got the next batter to roll over on an inside fastball to the third baseman. The third out was a mildly hard-hit ball to the right side that the first baseman made a diving catch and threw to Parisi covering the bag.
He got into a bit of trouble in his third inning. After inducing an easy 6-3 groundout on a jam shot on the inside corner, he allowed a hard-hit single to RF. The third-place hitter smoked a double high off the right-center field wall (an area that usually is not reached) for an RBI double. He walked the next batter, but they were all close pitches. He got out of the jam with a big swinging strikeout and a groundout on a very hard-hit ball to third base.
Overall, I came away impressed with Parisi. He only had the one hiccup on the rocket off the wall. He stayed composed and focused after that. He seemed to feature two different breaking balls–a loopy one that was useful early in the count for looking strikes and a sharp one later in the count for outs. He had very good movement on his two-seamer to freeze right-handed batters.
UPDATE**- In his April 11 outing against LIU Post, he threw two innings, allowing one run. He worked in the 82-83 MPH range with the fastball and 68 MPH with the curveball. He worked ahead and had a good tempo. He struck out two batters.
