If there are some sort of magical beans that the Baltimore Orioles fed Chris Davis to vary him from an underachieving slugger into probably the most feared hitters in baseball, it is time to order up some for Michael Morse.
Morse was dealt from the Seattle Mariners on Friday to the Baltimore Orioles. In Seattle this season, he hit 13 homers with a disappointing 27 RBIs and226 batting average. The O’s are essentially hoping that the Michael Morse who obliterated baseballs in 2011 — 31 homers and 95 RBIs with a303 common — can present up and provides them a power enhance in the DH spot the ultimate month of the season.
If Morse doesn’t pan out? Well, the Orioles only gave up minor league outfielder Xavier Avery, a career259 in six minor-league seasons. It’s one other move from the Orioles that proves they’re going after it this season. They’re three half of games back within the AL Wild Card race.
The O’s had been busy on the commerce deadline, and are busy now, as contenders do last-minute scurrying to shore up their rosters earlier than Saturday’s waiver commerce deadline. The Morse deal follows a morning wherein the Indians acquired Jason Kubel and the Cardinals got John Axford.
Morse is a towering 6-foot-5 outfielder by trade who had that one monster season with the Washington Nationals. He did not present the same energy in 2012, but he nonetheless hit291. This year, nonetheless, his production took a nostril dive — 226/.283/.410.
Morse wears the same “disappointment” label that Chris Davis did when the Orioles acquired him. Their situations are totally different — Morse, for instance, is 4 years older — and simply because Davis found his groove that doesn’t mean Morse will.
But the Orioles can, and will, hope.
Orioles acquire Michael Morse from Mariners — can he have some of what Chris Davis is having?
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