Charlie Morton is a Roy Halladay clone

Ken Rosenthal’s latest notes column contains an item in which scouts are going on about how Pirates’ starter Charlie Morton has totally restructured his windup and delivery to be exactly like Roy Halladay’s:

“Roy Halladay now has an absolute clone on the Pittsburgh Pirates,” one rival scout says. “Morton has copied his windup perfectly, from the way he starts to the way he finishes. It’s almost identical.”

I haven’t seen Morton pitch so far this year, so I’ll withhold judgment. I’ll note, however, that while Morton is 2-0 with a 1.64 ERA in three starts, he also has a grand total of six strikeouts in 22 innings. And 12 walks. Halladay had 30 walks all of last season in 33 starts.

Maybe the new windup will bring forth Roy Halladay-like results for Morton. Then again, maybe it will have about the same effect that getting the Jennifer Aniston haircut had on all of those women who got it back in 1995: superficial resemblance, but still one hell of a difference.