A season ago, few fans had heard of Chris Coghlan. The left-handed hitting infielder came to camp, had a number in the mid 80's on his jersey and turned in an 0-16 spring training.
Come October, Coghlan had turned in a truly memorable rookie season that was capped with winning the Rookie of the Year award.
A year later, Logan Morrison is in Marlins camp, wearing #81 on his back and competing (although we're going to use that term loosely) for the first base job with University of Miami product and a mainstay of the Marlins' system, Gaby Sanchez. Unfortunately for Morrison, he has just 1 hit in 18 spring at bats. The point isn't that spring troubles are the process for a heralded player to go through in the spring, phenom Mike Stanton is sporting a .444 average in 15 spring at bats along with a pair of home-runs, but rather that a dismal spring and a trip to the minors (which seems to be in Morrison's future) can still lead to wonderful results as soon as the coming season.
So for Morrison, who is by any measure one of the premier first base prospects in baseball, a trip to AAA New Orleans shouldn't be seen as a failure. He can enjoy Bourbon Street for a few weeks (or months) before Miami inevitably comes calling for the big lefty's bat.
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