{"id":334906,"date":"2025-10-27T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334906\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:00:17","slug":"former-phillies-teenage-draft-pick-pitcher-john-morris-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334906\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Phillies Teenage Draft Pick, Pitcher John Morris, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JUNE 25: The Philadelphia Phillies logo is pictured on a hat during the game against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on June 25, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Nic Antaya\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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John Morris, a former big-league pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants has died at age 84.<\/p>\n

Morris was a native of Lewes, Delaware and was drafted by the nearby Philadelphia Phillies for his age-18 season in 1960, though he did not debut for the Phillies until six years later. Morris\u2019s death was reported with an obituary in Lewes\u2019 Cape Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After appearing in just 13 games with the Phillies as a rookie, Morris returned to the team\u2019s minor league system for the next season before joining the Baltimore Orioles. He then pitched for the short-lived Seattle Pilots franchise and was part of their transition into the Milwaukee Brewers. He ended his career in the San Francisco Giants\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highlight of Morris\u2019s career came on May 13 and May 19, 1970 as he threw complete games in back-to-back starts,\u201d according to MLB Trade Rumors\u2019 Nick Deeds<\/a>. \u201cMorris\u2019s May 19 start against the Oakland A\u2019s saw him out-duel All-Star and future Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter on the mound as Milwaukee won 6-3. Morris\u2019s solid season as a swing man earned him a full-time look in the Milwaukee bullpen for the 1971 campaign, and he posted a 3.72 ERA in 67 2\/3 innings of work across 43 appearances for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though his big-league career was relatively short lived, it marked the realization of a lifelong dream for Morris and he spent more than a decade playing professional baseball after being drafted by the Phillies as a teenager. In total, he appeared in 132 games across eight major-league seasons and logged a career 3.92 ERA.<\/p>\n

Morris died in Scottsdale, Arizona and is survived by his wife, three children and four grandchildren, according to the Cape Gazette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JUNE 25: The Philadelphia Phillies logo is pictured on a hat during the game against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1276,4247,1266,2083,1275,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-334906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115443192989692863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}