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Colt Morton is Healthy and Making Most of His Spring
By Chad Gramling | February 29, 2008
Colt Morton made his Major League debut last September in the bottom of the 14th inning. He popped out to end the game. A very quiet way to enter the big leagues, but Morton plans to have more than a little cup of coffee.
Last year at this time, Morton was nursing a bum shoulder and was unable to take part in Spring Training. There’s an article at MLB.com that talks about the 25-year-old catcher and his pursuit of becoming an every-day big leaguer.
If you’re like me, and you were hoping that Michael Barrett would sign elsewhere to possibly give Colt more of a shot this year, this is good news. Morton spent last spring in recovery mode and in Peoria before made his season debut in July for the Padres’ Arizona League squad.
The catcher hit .290 in 11 games before moving onto Class A Lake Elsinore of the California League. He made the most of hs 24 at bats, hitting .500 before promotion to Double-A San Antonio, where he hit .266 in 29 games with six home runs and 19 RBIs and later making the aforementioned MLB debut during September call-ups. Barring injury or something out of the ordinary, Morton will probably start the season with Triple-A Portland.
But hopefully we’ll see the slugger at Petco sometime in 2008.
Photo by Chad Gramling. More about Colt Morton’s seasons with the Fort Wayne Wizards can be found on page 68 of Baseball in Fort Wayne.
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