OPS

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abbreviation or noun

ˌō-ˌpē-ˈes 

baseball

: a statistic that combines a hitter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage

Trout is on track for a third season with an OPS greater than .950. Only two players had three such years through their age-22 season: Ted Williams (1939-41) and Jimmie Fox (1928-30), neither of whom played defense or ran like Trout.

—Tom Verducci

During that span he averaged 29 home runs and hit .301 with a .922 OPS, numbers rarely witnessed at his position …

—Ben Reiter

One formula used more and more for comparing the greatest hitters ever is adding the on-base and slugging percentages, which produces a statistic called OPS. Agreed upon by baseball analysts and statisticians alike, OPS … paints the most complete picture of how a hitter dominates his era.

—Kenneth Shouler

Ops

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noun

ˈäps 

: the Roman goddess of abundance and the wife of Saturn

Examples of OPS in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Abbreviation or noun

Milwaukee entered Wednesday ranked fourth in runs (733) and 11th in OPS (.735) after finishing 17th in runs (728) and 23rd in OPS (.704) last year. —Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024

Taillon’s striking out fewer batters per nine innings (6.9) than any year of his career, but his OPS against (.689) is his lowest since 2019. —Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024

Noun

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Word History

Etymology

Abbreviation or noun

on-base percentage + slugging average

Noun

Latin Opis, personified and deified abstraction from the common noun op-, *ops "power, ability, wealth, resources" — more at opus

Note: Nominative Ops is a post-classical restoration, as such a form in unattested in classical Latin.

First Known Use

Abbreviation Or Noun

1999, in the meaning defined above

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above