4:26pm: Morrison’s contract has indeed been selected, per a club announcement. He’ll fill the 25-man roster spot that was vacated with Jake Arrieta landing on the 10-day IL with what looks to be a season-ending elbow issue. Righty Jerad Eickhoff was moved to the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man roster spot for Morrison.
1:33pm: The Phillies will select the contract of veteran first baseman Logan Morrison from Triple-A Lehigh Valley today, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports (via Twitter). He’ll join the roster a day after fellow lefty slugger Corey Dickerson exited the game with an apparent hand injury after being hit by a pitch from Jose Quintana.
The 31-year-old Morrison had an awful season in 2018 when he tried to play through a hip injury with the Twins. That issue, initially believed to be an impingement, wound up being far more severe, as season-ending surgery also revealed a torn labrum in Morrison’s hip. Morrison still managed to swat 15 home runs with the Twins in 359 plate appearances last year, but his overall .186/.276/.368 batting line was obviously an eyesore.
Morrison inked a minor league deal with the Yankees earlier this summer once he was sufficiently recovered from that procedure, but he didn’t make it to the big leagues in the Bronx despite laying waste to Triple-A pitching in Scranton. He then signed on with the Phillies and hasn’t missed a beat in Triple-A. In fact, he’s been even better with the Phillies’ top affiliate. Overall, in a combined 233 Triple-A plate appearances, Morrison has ripped 18 home runs and 16 doubles while putting together a superlative .308/.369/.640 batting line. Even in a league-wide, supercharged offensive environment in Triple-A this season, Morrison’s bat has been more than 50 percent better than that off an average hitter (by measure of wRC+).
With the Phils, Morrison will look to sweep last year’s woeful ratios under the rug and bounce back to the 2017 form that saw him hit .246/.353/.516 with a career-high 38 home runs as a member of the Rays.
I’d like to see LoMo over Sean Rodriguez.
“I’d like to see LoMo over Sean Rodriguez.”
Hopefully he performs and is a solid bench option both this year and potentially next. They cannot go into 2020 with a dogsh*t bench like they had this year.
yeah. as much as it kinda silly people expected them to jettison both Miller and Rodriguez with no other true utility options, (Kingery not counting due to the fact that he’s a daily starter) LoMo’s bat should be an upgrade as long as he’s not his 2018 self.
Not Miller. He can at least hit the ball. Rodriguez couldn’t hit the ball if he had the Titanic for a bat.;
not Sean’s fault that car accident a couple years back messed him up- but the Phils fault for keeping him on roster and playing him so much, though thats far down their list of problems at this point.
Does this mean Dickerson is headed to the IL or have we finally seen the last of Sean Rodriguez?
Dickerson appeared to be okay last night after they took him out last night, so I hope he’s only day to day.
Iconic picture
Probably the best picture on here!
What does it mean?
Look, me have big muscles!
arrietta to DL for now is offsetting move.
The Phils are trying everyone that hits the market at this point.
If he’s 2017 LoMo (and those AAA numbers look like he is) then he’s going to have an impact.
Seems like the Phillies are acting in desperation. Trying to find anyone, for some offense, and bringing back 75 yr old Charlie Manuel
Kapler needs to give LoMo some reps at 1B, Hoskins needs to catch is breath after the deep dive he’s been on since the all star break.
“…an eyesore.”?
Steve, you rock!
Wow and at one time the Phils were playoff contenders and now they are taking players of the scrap heap. What on earth are they doing? Besides there main problem is pitching not the last bat on the bench.
I’m surprised he left his P/T job selling used cars. At least he was good at that.
When he was top prospect in the Marlins system back in like 2010 he worked at a local sports card/memorabilia store in Jupiter, FL in the offseason. He was opening some baseball card product for the store’s inventory and pull some extremely rare Babe Ruth cut signature card that sold for like $100k….so I believe you mean selling used “cards”
I don’t like the fact that he’s wearing #8.
You’d think the Phils would reserve that one for someone truly special.