Yankees Draft: Biggest First Round MLB Draft Busts

4. Yankees Draft: David Parrish

Yankees draft bust David Parrish was not the catcher of the future.

Drafting a Michigan man in the year 2000 is supposed to result in six rings, not total bust status. Unfortunately, only one franchise gets the chance to luck into Tom Brady.

The mid-dynasty Yanks opted for Jorge Posada’s replacement in David Parrish (a bizarre decision at that juncture, anyway), and got burned yet again.

This bust gets upgraded in severity because the Yanks opted for Parrish not once, but twice — the team also selected the catcher in the 10th round out of high school in 1997, before selecting him at the end of the first in 2000.

Parrish toiled in the minors for nine seasons and a devilish 666 games, hitting 35 total home runs, and never rising above the level of “potential third-string catcher” with the big club. If the Yankees had spent an extra few hours scouting that year, they could’ve chosen…Adam Wainwright, exactly ONE pick later. The Yankees may have been the Team of the ’90s, but the Braves got their goat when the new millennium began.