Scottsdale, Ariz. – Giants fans are going to love Michael Morse’s sense of humor.

When a reporter asked if he preferred to be called “Mike” or “Michael,” the team’s new left fielder said, “You can call me anything you want. If I’m not hitting in July you can call me ‘jerk.'”

Morse called the surgeon who fixed his wrist last year the “director of the hand department” at the Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Richard Berger did Morse a huge solid in October by finding the source of an impingment that not only sent pain shooting up his left arm but prevented him from straightening his wrist. Morse is not shy about blaming the injury for his awful 2013 season with the Mariners and Orioles – a .215 average and .651 OPS.

Morse jammed the wrist early in the season while sliding and team doctors could not locate the precise injury. He even was told it might be in his head.

Former Nationlals teammate Mark DeRosa, the ex-Giant, convinced Morse he might have the same injury that derailed DeRosa’s career, a torn sheath tendon. One day DeRosa grabbed Morse’s wrist, pressed hard in one spot and asked, “Does that hurt?”

Morse screamed in pain and DeRosa said, “Oof, I had that. Look at me now.”

On his own, on the advice of Nats right fielder Jayson Werth, Morse traveled to the Mayo Clinic to see Berger, who took more extensive tests and told the outfielder, “Even if I don’t find something I’m cutting you open because, if you say something’s is wrong, there has to be something there.”

An ultrasound revealed a bone spur that impinged the wrist’s natural movement. Berger performed a quick operation to shave down the spur. Morse was swinging a fungo bat within a week and taking batting practice within a month. Now, he is pain-free and hopes to become the power hitter he was with the Nats in 2011, when he hit 31 home runs.

Notwithstanding DeRosa’s attempt at injury diagnosis, he had Morse’s best interests in mind. In fact, Morse said, “He’s the one guy who told me this is the place to play. He loved San Francisco.”

Elsewhere on Day 3 of camp: