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On-base plus slugging (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's on-base percentage and slugging average. The statistic reflects two important offensive skills: the ability of a player to get on base and to hit for power. Babe Ruth is the all-time leader with a career 1.1636 OPS.
Williams led the American League (AL) in on-base percentage in twelve seasons, the most such seasons for any player in the major leagues. [4] [5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons, a NL record. [5] [6] Williams also posted the then-highest single-season on-base percentage of .5528 in 1941, a record that stood for 61 years ...
Barry Bonds holds the most hitting records with ten, most notably the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler 's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season. Record. Player. #. Refs. Highest batting average. Ty Cobb. .366.
The young Orioles sit at No. 4 in this week's power rankings. (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports) (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports) 16. Tampa Bay Rays, 9-8. I’m eager to see what a full season in ...
Oscar Charleston is second all-time with a career batting average of .364. [3] He had the highest career batting average in the history of the combined Negro leagues from 1920 to 1948. [4] Rogers Hornsby has the third highest BA of all-time, at .358. [1] He won seven batting titles in the National League (NL) and has the highest NL average in a ...
Yahoo Sports’ 26-and-under power rankings are a remix on the traditional farm system rankings that assess the strength of MLB organizations’ talent base among rookie-eligible and MiLB players ...
In an effort to properly weigh the contributions of players already making an impact at the big-league level, the young MLB hitting/pitching categories were scored from 0-to-10, while the prospect ...
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...