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Robertowannabe
Bummer for Charlie. When he was with the Pirates, he always seamed like one of those good guys that caused no trouble and you liked to root for. Hope you can come back healthy and get the career going again next season whether it is with the Phils or elsewhere.
No Soup For Yu!
I think you mean Jerad not Jared Eickhoff.
Jeff Todd
Indeed. Fixed.
daveinmp
More fodder for proponents of the DH in the NL. That’s 3 pitchers in 3 seasons that have incurred significant injuries while batting in Miller Park. In 2014, Joe Kelly, then with the Cardinals, pulled a hamstring running out a bunt and missed 2 months. Last year it was Adam Wainwright tearing his Achilles. and not Morton injuring himself running to first base.
NotCanon
Sounds to me like that’s more fodder for closing Miller Park, since there’s not that much evidence of injury in any other stadium.
The same action involved in running out a bunt is involved in running from the mound to cover first base, but we don’t hear anyone clamoring for a designated fielder for the pitcher.
Cam
Absolutely agreed NotCanon. Running out a bunt, or even running the bases full stop, is a mechanically repeatable skill. A couple of injuries is not sufficient reason to change the game to compensate.
The DH is already used to negate the effects of old age and weight issues, let’s not take it too far.
JoeyPankake
Professional athletes should be expected to be able to run without getting hurt. An injury here or there shouldn’t be any grounds for a DH.
Ray Ray
Okay so you have 3 injuries. How many pitchers WEREN’T injured while batting in those same three seasons? People like to pick and choose statistics to fit whatever argument they make, but they tend to forget the stats that make their argument look ridiculous.
davidcoonce74
Actually, more fodder for the DH in the NL is that watching pitchers bat is really boring and the “strategy” of the double-switch is not strategy but necessity.
Cam
Cheer up, Charlie.
jc o.
Morton a great acquisition for young phils staff. Also if he pitched well goal was to trade at deadline and add more assets. Morgan deserves to be called up.