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| Projections | | Timeframe | AB | HR | AVG | RBI | R | SB | | 2013 Season (CBSSports.com) | 520.00 | 25.00 | .292 | 81.00 | 67.00 | 0.00 |
| Key Stats |
| AB | HR | AVG | RBI | R | SB |
| 167 | 5 | .281 | 21 | 16 | 0 |
| Games Played By Position | | Year | C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | DH | SP | RP | | 2013 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | | 2012 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 0 | 0 |
| Situational Stats | | Situation | AB | H | HR | OBP | SLG | AVG | | vs Texas | 24 | 3 | 0 | .300 | .125 | .125 | | vs Grimm (Career) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | 0 | | vs RHP | 110 | 28 | 2 | .333 | .391 | .255 |
| Recent Trades | | Date | Traded | Traded For | | 05/22/2013 | R.A. Dickey, SP TOR
Adeiny Hechavarria, SS MIA
| Jonathan Villar, SS HOU
Jeff Ames, SP TB
Kendrys Morales, DH SEA
| | 05/22/2013 | Zack Greinke, SP LAD
| Kendrys Morales, DH SEA
| | 05/22/2013 | Wilin Rosario, C COL
Ryan Howard, 1B PHI
| Derek Holland, SP TEX
Kendrys Morales, DH SEA
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| Last 10 Games | | Date | Opp | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | BB | SB | | 5/12 | OAK | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | | 5/14 | @NYY | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 5/15 | @NYY | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 5/16 | @NYY | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 5/17 | @CLE | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 5/18 | @CLE | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 5/19 | @CLE | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 5/20 | @CLE | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | | 5/21 | @LAA | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 5/22 | @LAA | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Latest News
| Kendrys Morales nets 3 hits for a third time |
by Michael Hurcomb | CBSSports.com
(5/20/13) Mariners DH Kendrys Morales tied a season-high with three hits Monday at Cleveland. It was the third time this season he accomplished the feat and second time in May.
Morales had two doubles, one run and two RBI Monday. He's batting .305 (18 for 59) with two home runs, six doubles and 11 RBI in 15 May games.
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| Kendrys Morales hits three-run homer |
by Chris Cwik | CBSSports.com
(5/13/13) Mariners designated hitter Kendrys Morales hit his fourth home run of the season Sunday against the Athletics.
It didn't take the Mariners long to get ahead of Tommy Milone. After a leadoff single, Kyle Seager walked, paving the way for Morales. Morales hit a ball out to left field on the third pitch he saw from Milone. It was his only hit of the game. Morales is hitting .262/.351/.415 in 130 at-bats.
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| Mariners move Kendrys Morales into cleanup spot |
by Michael Hurcomb | CBSSports.com
(5/12/13) Mariners manager Eric Wedge made a change to his lineup Sunday against the Athletics, moving Kyle Seager into the third spot in the batting order. Wedge made the move to alleviate some of the pressure felt by Kendrys Morales and Michael Morse, who moved down to fourth and fifth in the lineup, respectively.
"I’m playing around with it a little bit," Wedge said, per MLB.com. "I still stand by the fact that Morales and Morse are just trying to do too much. They know they’re the guys here and I think with that sometimes you put a little too much pressure on yourself to do too much. You see both of them chasing more than they should."
Morales is batting .333 (10 for 30) in his last eight games, but he hasn't homered in 14 games and is slugging a disappointing .397.
"Kendrys is so good, the on-base percentage, he’s going to hit," Wedge said. "He’s going to be fine in the end. But ultimately we need to be able to count on him every day."
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| Kendrys Morales sits in NL park |
by Bill Passonno | CBSSports.com
(5/7/13) With Seattle opening a two-game interleague series at Pittsburgh, Mariners designated hitter Kendrys Morales was held out of the lineup Tuesday. Morales has spent the majority of his playing time as the DH this season, but has notched just three home runs in 32 games.
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| Kendrys Morales dealing with power outage |
by Michael Hurcomb | CBSSports.com
(5/5/13) Mariners DH Kendrys Morales has managed a disappointing three home runs and a .393 slugging percentage through his first 31 games. His poor power numbers have forced his Fantasy ownership to sink to 81 percent.
So what gives? Well, starting off Morales appears to be more selective at the outset of the season. He's swung at just a career-low 27.6 percent of pitches outside the strike zone, which is below his career rate (33.2 percent), per FanGraphs.com. He also nearly has as many walks (13) as strikeouts (19), which isn't the norm for Morales. It's a bit odd to see this from Morales since he had no problems swinging away this spring, when he hit seven home runs in 19 spring games.
Morales' ISO -- which is a measure of a hitter's raw power -- is at .134, which is well below his career .206 mark. He also has just a 10 percent home run to fly ball ratio, which is well below what he did in 2012 (21 percent) and below his career average (16.5 percent).
All signs point to Morales likely to trend back toward the norm at some point, so if you can afford to be patient, then the rewards could be great down the road. If I'm a Kendrys Morales owner, then there's no way I'm dropping him onto waivers.
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| No one can reasonably classify Kendrys Morales' 2012 as anything less than a success. Returning after missing all of 2011 and most of 2010 with a severe ankle injury that required two surgeries, the 29-year-old slugger hit 22 home runs in 134 games. Still, considering the heights he had reached before the injury, his Fantasy owners were probably a little underwhelmed with the performance. His continued struggles against left-handers forced him into a semi-platoon role on a team overrun with first basemen, but that wasn't even his biggest problem. Never a patient hitter, Morales pretty much has to rate among the best power hitters in the game to make up for his lack of walks, and he didn't. He wasn't the guy who slugged .569 (with a much higher batting average to boot) in 2009. Because he's still in the prime of his career, Morales has a chance to get back on track and perhaps even showed signs of it with a .540 slugging percentage from Aug. 1 to the end of the season. He also figures to see an increase in at-bats now that he's with the Mariners, who need all the offense they can get. True, he's going to a pitcher's park, but he's also leaving one. Given his a career .904 OPS at Safeco Field, his move to the Mariners does more good than harm to his Fantasy value. A year further removed from injury, Morales has genuine sleeper appeal late in mixed-league drafts. (Updated 1/2/13) |
| Upcoming 7 Games | | Date | Opp | Time | Scheduled Starter | | 5/24/13 | TEX | 10:10 pm | Justin Grimm | | 5/25/13 | TEX | 10:10 pm | Derek Holland | | 5/26/13 | TEX | 4:10 pm | Nick Tepesch | | 5/27/13 | SD | 4:10 pm | Edinson Volquez | | 5/28/13 | SD | 10:10 pm | | | 5/29/13 | @ SD | 10:10 pm | Eric Stults | | 5/30/13 | @ SD | 3:40 pm | Andrew Cashner |
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