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Padres To Sign Micah Owings

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | February 1, 2012 at 4:29pm CDT

4:29pm: The agreement is for a one-year, $1MM, Major League deal, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweets.

2:41pm: The Padres have agreed to sign Micah Owings to a minor league contract that includes an invitation to Spring Training, Dan Hayes of the North County Times tweets. Legacy Sports Group represents the 29-year-old right-hander.

Owings spent the 2011 season with the Diamondbacks, posting a 3.57 ERA with 6.3 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and a 38% ground ball rate in 63 innings. A former starter with the Diamondbacks and Reds, Owings has pitched mostly out of the bullpen since 2010. At the plate, he has nine homers and an impressive .286/.313/.507 batting line in 217 career plate appearances. Kirk Gibson let Owings bat for himself regularly last year and asked him to pinch hit on one other occasion.

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  1. friarforum

    13 years ago

    would have been the Pads best bat last year! LOL

    Reply
  2. rockvssingleparents

    13 years ago

    Yeah with that offense they might want to consider slotting him in behind Carlos Quentin for protection. 

    Reply
  3. popular_mechanics_for_pitchers

    13 years ago

    821 OPS

    Reply
  4. padreshobo

    13 years ago

    World Series = Won

    Reply
  5. cards2WS

    13 years ago

    3-hole hitter? Clean-up?

    Reply
  6. sleeper13

    13 years ago

    awh. 🙁 good luck, micah. we’ll never forget that game against the braves where you hit two homers and drove in 6. i’m not looking forward to us facing your hitting. lol.

    Reply
  7. Beersy 2

    13 years ago

    Not a “glam” signing, but one that should improve the team.  Nice job Josh.

    Reply
  8. michael hughes

    13 years ago

    I remember his two homer game against the Braves and ever since have wanted to see him go all Rick Ankiel and try becoming a position player. I have no doubt that if he tried the transition three years ago he’d be a fantastic offensive player, but he always says he prefers pitching even though I think he could be a better hitter.

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    • Dock_Elvis

      13 years ago

      I’ve wondered if they could switch him to the OF for a batter to bring in a specialist..then return him to the mound so he could hit without using a pinch hitter.  Of course…that burns the replaced OFer.

      Reply
      • ChuckNorris

        13 years ago

        Actually, yes they can. Whitey Herzog used to do this all the time with lefty-righty-lefty matchups to not burn a lefty reliever.

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        • Dock_Elvis

          13 years ago

          I was thinking as I typed…..I can recall Whitey Herzog using that switch with John Tudor.

          Reply
  9. Charles Anderson

    13 years ago

    I was hoping the Padres would sign him, now we have a legit pinch-hitter w/power!

    Reply
  10. sourbob

    13 years ago

    If Petco helps drop his HR/9 (as it should) he might eke out some decent value.

    Plus, he’s supposedly a terrific clubhouse guy and as noted, is a good hitter.

    Reply
    • jamesa-2

      13 years ago

      Petco can only help Owings’s value. He had high value for the Dbacks and a tremendous work ethic.

      Reply
  11. Thomas Wilson

    13 years ago

    The Ultimate NL player can be the long reliever/spot starter and has hit RHP to the tune of .315/.344/.582

    Reply
  12. Leo Ramos

    13 years ago

    Nooooooo0 Micah, why the hell the diamondbacks dindt resing him??

    Reply
    • mmiller54

      13 years ago

      Umm… The Dbacks already have all 7 bullpen spots locked down with Shaw, Ziegler, Breslow, Paterson, Saito, Hernandez, and Putz, with Breslow being able to pitch 2-3 innings.

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      • jamesa-2

        13 years ago

        Micah should have been brought back, but alas, the Dbacks did not want to pay arbitration type salary. Once they traded for Breslow and signed Saito, not only did it seal Owings’s fate, but it kicked Shaw to the curb too.

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        • mmiller54

          13 years ago

          Shaw isn’t kicked to the curb… see that he is included in the names above. Also, I liked Micah, he was a valuable portion of the bullpen, but more reliable pitchers were found.

          Reply
          • jamesa-2

            13 years ago

            I noticed that you had included Shaw. I simply disagree he will make the 25-man roster. Indications are teh Dbacks go with an 11 man pitching staff. If that is the case:

            Kennedy/Hudson/Cahill/Saunders/ Collmenter make up the starting 5

            Putz/Hernandez/Saito/Zeigler/Breslow/and then one of Paterson, Lorin, Shaw, or some other dark-horse filling the last slot. Currently, my money is on Paterson to lock down the last slot and for Lorin (Rule 5) to be returned.

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      • Leo Ramos

        13 years ago

        Yes, but remember that the D’Backs’ bullpen is characterized because it is very prone to injury and is never to spare some help in the minors

        Reply
  13. Mickey Koke

    13 years ago

    Solid addition.

    Reply
  14. FillyPhan

    13 years ago

    I wanna know the price of the deal!

    Reply
    • kartoffeln777

      13 years ago

      The tweet said $1 million

      Reply
  15. iheartyourfart

    13 years ago

    good move to stash in AAA in case someone gets hurt.  keeps them from having to bring up erlin, weiland, or kelly too soon.

    Reply
  16. Les Johnson

    13 years ago

    Ok, I’m sure this question has been raised before, but why exactly is Owings still masquerading as a pitcher when he’s actually an above-average hitter? 

    Does he only pinch-hit in very favorable spots thus inflating his batting line?

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    • michael

      13 years ago

      Because he’s not actually that great a hitter? Don’t get me wrong, great hitter for a pitcher and probably could have been a bench bat if he had been a hitter all along. But his career numbers are propped up by his home numbers from ’08 and ’09. When you consider that he’s mostly played in favorable home parks and would be unable to play anything but first or DH defensively, his hitting isn’t actually any better than a lot of guys floating around Triple-A.

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    • jamesa-2

      13 years ago

      Owings has prodigous power. When with the Dbacks the first time around, he took BP with the first group. He pretty regularly launched them from the field and onto the concourse behind the bleachers. The Dbacks more than once tried convincing him to move to first base. He continues to resist that move, insisting that he can pitch.

      Last season he pitched his way out of AAA on to the big league roster then pitched himself from the bullpen into the rotation. He has no real velocity, he just gets results.

      He actually has above average pitch recognition as a batter, and if he played every day would have a BA to match. As he spends most of his time in the bullpen though, he rarely gets ABs, and if he does, it’s usually only one in a game.

      Reply
  17. pastlives

    13 years ago

    good for micah owings the pitcher.

    bad for micah owings the hitter.

    Reply
  18. Ryan Musialowski

    13 years ago

    He’ll have roughly the same batting average as batting average against. LOL

    Reply
  19. goner

    13 years ago

    nice signing by the Padres, and I’m glad he’s staying in the NL. 

    fun fact: Owings has more career WAR as a hitter (3.0 bWAR) than as a pitcher (0.2 bWAR).

    Reply
    • michael hughes

      13 years ago

      That is an awesome stat.

      Reply
  20. goner

    13 years ago

    nice signing by the Padres, and I’m glad he’s staying in the NL. 

    fun fact: Owings has more career WAR as a hitter (3.0 bWAR) than as a pitcher (0.2 bWAR).

    Reply
  21. Kevin Mitchell

    13 years ago

    9 HRs in 217 plate appearance… he might be our best power hitter

    Reply
  22. Hal Janke

    13 years ago

    Good signing he’ll stick with the big boys out of Spring Training

    Reply

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