Micah Owings In Context

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A look at the sweet-swinging Diamonbacks pitcher and his current place in history. Plus a chance to peruse random lists of baseball stats. [link]

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Micah Owings in Context
Published 5/9/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Micah Owings in Context But it’s more fun to take him out of context. Highest Career OPS (min 75 PA): Babe Ruth 1.164 Ted Williams 1.116 Lou Gehrig 1.079 Micah Owings 1.056 Barry Bonds 1.051 Albert Pujols 1.041 While this isn’t necessarily a candidate for inclusion in the next edition of How to Lie With Statistics, setting the bar at 75 PA is just the tiniest bit misleading. Still, that’s pretty heady company, and there’s no denying that Owings is an excellent hitting pitcher. With the help of the amazing BaseballReference.com Play Index, I pulled up a couple of ...

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