Hunter Morris

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Hunter Morris
Morris playing for the Nashville Sounds in 2013.
Milwaukee Brewers
First baseman
Born: (1988-10-07) October 7, 1988 Huntsville, Alabama
Bats: Left	Throws: Right

Jeffrey Hunter Morris (born October 7, 1988) is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

College career

Morris was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the second round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft out of Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama but did not sign and attended Auburn University.^[1] In 2010 Morris was the SEC Player of the Year and a first team All-American by Baseball America and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Professional career

Morris was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the fourth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft.^[5]^[6]

In 2012, Morris was the Southern League Most Valuable Player after hitting .303/.357/.563 with 28 home runs and 113 runs batted in.^[7]^[8] He also won the Robin Yount Performance Award as the Brewers Minor League Player of the Year.^[9]

Morris was added to the Brewers 40-man roster on November 20, 2013.^[10]

References

↑ "2007 Boston Red Sox Draft Tracker". Boston.com. September 9, 1988. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ Charles Goldberg. "Auburn's Hunter Morris SEC player of year". Blog.al.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ "Hunter Morris Named SEC Player Of The Year; Six Tigers Named All-SEC". Auburntigers.com. May 25, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ "Hunter Morris Named First Team All-America, Brian Fletcher Second Team". Auburntigers.com. June 16, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ Bitter, Andy (June 8, 2010). "Auburn's Hunter Morris taken by Milwaukee Brewers in fourth round". Ledger-enquirer.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ Charles Goldberg. "Auburn baseball draft updates: Hunter Morris says he likes his Brewers; 9 Tigers go". Blog.al.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ 09/03/2012 12:28 PM EST (May 24, 2013). "Hunter Morris Named 2012 Southern League Most Valuable Player". Milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ The Huntsville Times/Bob Gathany. "Huntsville's Hunter Morris named Southern League Most Valuable Player". Al.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ 09/05/2012 2:57 PM EST (May 24, 2013). "Brewers announce 2012 Minor League Player and Pitcher of the Year Awards". Milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
↑ Brewers protect Morris, Rogers from Rule 5 Draft

External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Auburn Tigers bio

v t e Southeastern Conference Baseball Player of the Year

1993: Johnson 1994: Walker 1995: Helton 1996: Furniss 1997: Hudson 1998: Pickler 1999: Bledsoe 2000: Bouknight 2001: Burke 2002: Peters 2003: Hill 2004: Head & Zeringue 2005: LaPorta 2006: Strieby 2007: LaPorta 2008: Beckham 2009: Matthes 2010: Morris 2011: Zunino 2012: Rhymes 2013: Kemp

v t e 2010 College Baseball All-America Team consensus selections

P Danny Hultzen P Drew Pomeranz P Matt Purke P Chris Sale RP Chance Ruffin C Yasmani Grandal 1B Hunter Morris 2B Zack MacPhee 3B Anthony Rendon SS None O Gary Brown O Alex Dickerson O Chris Duffy DH None U None

v t e Milwaukee Brewers current roster

Active roster	1 Logan Schafer 2 Scooter Gennett 3 Elian Herrera 8 Ryan Braun 9 Jean Segura 11 Sean Halton 12 Martín Maldonado 13 Will Smith 14 Jeff Bianchi 15 Caleb Gindl 16 Aramis Ramírez 18 Khris Davis 20 Jonathan Lucroy 21 Juan Francisco 22 Matt Garza 23 Rickie Weeks 25 Hunter Morris 26 Kyle Lohse 27 Carlos Gómez 29 Jim Henderson 30 Tyler Thornburg 32 Tom Gorzelanny 38 Wily Peralta 40 Johnny Hellweg 41 Marco Estrada 45 Alfredo Fígaro 46 Hiram Burgos 47 Rob Wooten 48 Donovan Hand 49 Yovani Gallardo 50 Jose De La Torre 51 Wei-Chung Wang 52 Jimmy Nelson 53 Brandon Kintzler 54 Michael Blazek 58 Ariel Peña 60 Kevin Shackelford 61 Jason Rogers 63 Brooks Hall 64 Mike Fiers

Restricted list	65 Miguel de los Santos

Coaching staff	Manager 10 Ron Roenicke Bench 36 Jerry Narron First base 35 Garth Iorg Third base 6 Ed Sedar Hitting 13 Johnny Narron Pitching 39 Rick Kranitz Bullpen 43 Lee Tunnell Bullpen catcher 55 Marcus Hanel Coach 33 John Shelby Coach -- Mike Guerrero

Persondata
Name	Morris, Hunter
Alternative names
Short description	Baseball player
Date of birth	October 7, 1988
Place of birth	Huntsville, Alabama
Date of death
Place of death

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