Mike Morse

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**Mike Morse**
Major League Baseball debut
Seattle Mariners — No. 12
Shortstop
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
May 31, 2005 for the Seattle Mariners
Selected MLB statistics (through 2006)
AVG	.293
RBI	34
HR	3

Michael John Morse (born March 22, 1982 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) is a Major League Baseball utility player for the Seattle Mariners. He was selected by the Chicago White Sox in 3rd Round (82nd overall) of 2000 amateur draft. Michael attended Nova High School in Davie, Florida, the same school that produced future NFL players Autry Denson and Omar Smith, and future MLS star Cory Gibbs.

Morse was acquired by the Mariners along with Miguel Olivo and Jeremy Reed for Freddy Garcia and Ben Davis on June 27, 2004. Beginning the 2005 season with the AAA Tacoma Rainiers, he made his major league debut on May 31, 2005. Although Morse made it to the big leagues as a shortstop, with the arrival of Yuniesky Betancourt, Morse began to develop as a utility player, having spent time at first base and left field.

On July 6, 2006 Mike Morse had surgery to repair a torn medial meniscus of his right knee.

[edit] Steroids

On September 7, 2005 he became the ninth Major League Baseball player to be suspended for testing positive for steroids. Morse admitted that he had taken steroids in 2003 after tearing his thigh muscle, being suspended in May 2004 after testing positive for the drug. Morse admamantly claimed that the 2005 positive result was the consequence of this earlier usage[1]. He resides in Plantation, Florida.