Marlins Logan Morrison Could Fill Indians Void at First Base

Marlins Logan Morrison Could Fill Indians Void at First Base
John Nestor

Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Indians are going to need to make some moves this offseason to keep building a team that showed signs of life in 2011.

One of the first places they will need to add someone is at first base and that someone could be Logan Morrison of the Florida Marlins.

Morrison is attractive for a few reasons, as Bleacher Report first speculated. He looks like he has the potential to be a big bat at a corner infield position and he could come on the cheap.

Morrison ran afoul of the Marlins brass this season due to his activity on Twitter. He was demoted for a stretch, filed a grievance and continued to call the team out on his Twitter account.

Now he will likely take his act and bat somewhere else as the consensus is that Morrison is available. But by treating him as they have, the Marlins can't demand too much for a player they have made obvious they want to be rid of.

In 123 games last season Morrison hit .247 with 23 home runs and 72 RBI with 54 runs scored. He has only 185 career games in the big leagues and is only 24, so he has plenty of upside.

With Travis Hafner moving into DH mode in his career and Jim Thome gone to Philadelphia, Cleveland needs a first baseman with some pop they can build around.

Morrison would offer that combination of power and a player the Indians can both build around and contend with as they try to improve on their second place finish (80-82) in the AL Central last season.