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Originally Posted by BirdWatcher
Although to be fair, let's note that Tracewski's OPS+ was 43 and Matchick's was 60. Far better than Oyler's 20 OPS+ but not nearly as good as Wilson's 118 that season.
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Pitchers as a whole OPSed .340 in 1968, so a. Earl Wilson (who had an OPS+ of 118) was either the best or one of the best hitting pitchers in the AL that season, and b. even in the season people like to try to throw out as the best counter-example to the notion that no position player can hit like a pitcher and still keep his job, Ray Oyler, who, as noted, lost his job because he couldn’t hit, still hit almost 60 points higher than the average pitcher did by OPS.