Comments on: Micah Owings may finally give full-time hitting a try

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:48:27 +0000

It looks like him if you’re familiar with seeing him in profile blowing into his fist. If you have, dead ringer for himself.

By: pike573

pike573 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:11:16 +0000

this could be one of the greatest comments I’ve ever seen…

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:11:43 +0000

That’d be an interesting roster spot if he was relief pitcher/ backup outfielder/ backup 1st baseman. Essentially he could fill 2 voids on the bench and give a team 1 extra spot for whatever they want.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:58:18 +0000

If he does, he’ll probably leave the team until he gets a promise that he’ll bat 3rd.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:24 +0000

Dontrelle is only 9 months older than Owings, but his line is much worse, .244/.287/.378 .665 OPS

By: runyetirun

runyetirun — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:35:17 +0000

this was… detailed

By: rooney24

rooney24 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:32:42 +0000

A few years back, when his pitching was at least kind of OK, I wondered why some AL team didn’t pick him up, drop him in the rotation and use him as a DH on other days. This was in his first few years when he was batting over .300 and hitting a few HRs.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:25:15 +0000

Note to Dontrelle Willis: you might wanna give this a try….

By: tartan1

tartan1 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:22:23 +0000

He definitely is a semi-gawky white dude. Owings wears/wore #27 for the Padres this year and the guy in the picture is definitely a right handed pitcher.

Owings made a home appearance against the Nationals on April 25, so this could be from that game. Edinson Volquez and Luke Gregerson both wear jersey numbers ending in 7 and both throw RH. Volquez made a home start against the Nats on April 26. Gregerson appeared in both the April 24 and April 25 games, but he’s also a semi-gawky white dude. The last letter on the jersey definitely isn’t an ‘n’ and it most likely isn’t a ‘z’.

Mark DeRosa wears #7 for the Nationals, and a Micah Owings 7th innings walk to Jayson Werth definitely sent DeRosa to third base in the April 25 game. DeRosa never got to 3B in the April 24 game and never got in the April 26 game, so I’m going with indeed it being Micah Owings. It certainly doesn’t look like him though.

By: randall351

randall351 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:20:09 +0000

Well that makes much more sense, I see that now, somehow I missed it reading the first time.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks Aaron went back and added that after my comment.

By: yahmule

yahmule — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:14:50 +0000

Smart move by Owings. Dontrelle Willis should have done this before he got too old.

By: yahmule

yahmule — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:12:34 +0000

“as a hitter”.

By: randall351

randall351 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:08:34 +0000

“an ugly 72/8 K/BB ratio”

That sounds like an amazing ratio to me. Almost 10 Ks for every BB, might be a typo?

By: runyetirun

runyetirun — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Is that really a picture of Micah Owings? I thought for sure Owings was a semi-gawky white dude.

By: bossman6

bossman6 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:55:43 +0000

Always wondered why he didn’t do this sooner. why will no one ever use him to pinch hit?