{"id":4584,"date":"2013-08-30T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:53:42","slug":"orioles-acquire-mike-morse-from-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/30\/orioles-acquire-mike-morse-from-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles acquire Mike Morse from Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4569\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4569\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/michaelmorse.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/michaelmorse.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/michaelmorse-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles have acquired outfielder Mike Morse from the Seattle Mairners.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the Orioles claimed both Morse and Josh Willingham on waivers in hopes of working out a deal. The Orioles had been seeking upgrades to their lineup, most notable at designated hitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: Morse is an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Oriole&amp;src=hash\">#Oriole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/373499135888220160\">August 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a 1:30 pm deadline to work out a deal the Orioles were successful in completing a deal with Seattle for the 31-year-old Morse.<\/p>\n<p>In 76 games for the Mariners this season Morse was hitting .226\/.283\/.410 with 13 home runs and 27 RBI. Over the last three seasons Morse had hit 64 home runs in 346 games with the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners will get minor league outfielder Xavier Avery in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Baltimore Orioles have acquired outfielder Mike Morse from the Seattle Mairners. Earlier this week the Orioles claimed both Morse and Josh Willingham on waivers in hopes of working out a deal. The Orioles had been seeking upgrades to their lineup, most notable at designated hitter. Source: Morse is an #Oriole. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}