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

The differentials between their numbers against lefties and righties — 33 points in batting average and 74 points in OPS — were slightly higher than other top-10 offenses. —Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025

Never mind that Hedges’ career OPS is .559, and .446 the past three seasons. —Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025

Noun

Sánchez is a licensed pilot and founder of aerial filming company Black Ops Aviation and the vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund. —Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which garnered two awards, was the most awarded of the night. —Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025

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

Rhymes for OPS

• chops
• cops
• copse
• crops
• drops
• flops
• hops
• mops
• pops
• props
• shops
• slops