Struggling Morris let go as Pirates shuffle rotation

 
Matt Morris, the veteran right-hander added by the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season to stabilize a young rotation, was released Sunday after failing to pitch past the second inning in his latest start. [link]

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Pirates release high-priced vet Morris

The decision to cut Morris will cost the Pirates more than $10 million, in addition to what they already have paid him this season. Morris is making $10,037,283 this season, or about one-fifth of their payroll, and has a $1 million buyout for 2009. "Matt Morris is a true professional," manager John Russell said. "He's had a great career. He wanted to help us win, but it just wasn't working ...
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Happy trails, Matt

It's official, Morris is gone . One of the things that writing this blog has made me uniquely aware of is how strange the player/fan relationship is. By the end of the 2006 season, I was starting to get some significant traffic and it dawned on me ...
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Matt Morris Released

Paul Meyer reports the bad news.  It's always sad to see a career end on this kind of sour note. But Morris will get a $10M pad on which to land once he becomes a civilian. So, it's not as though he'll need to work at KFC to make rent next ...
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Morris released after 0-4 start

Matt Morris yesterday left the Pirates -- or did he? "One of the best in the game," first baseman Adam LaRoche said a few minutes after the Pirates officially released the right-hander. "That's what everybody who played with him and everybody who ...
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Lost in the real sports news happening in the city this weekend, the Pirates were giving away a bobblehead on Saturday night, continuing the trend of having a promotion for every game played on a night that ends in the letter "y". Unfortunately, ...
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