Mark McGwire Career OPS Overview

Mark McGwire's OPS was 0.982 for his 16-year Major League Baseball career. 2000 was his best season when his OPS was 1.229 and his worst season was 1986 when his OPS was 0.636. Mark McGwire outperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, besting USA (0.677456), Baby Boomers (0.669468), Y (0.824577), mlb (0.677282), and 1B (0.725109) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

On Base Plus Slugging (OPS) is a metric used to quantify a players hitting power and ability to get on base. It's caluclated by summing the slugging percentage and on base percentage for a player or team over a given time period. Generally, for OPS, higher is better. (Source)

Mark McGwire Lifetime OPS

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Mark McGwire
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Career0.982
Season Avg.0.976
162 Game Avg.0.982
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Mark McGwire OPS By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Mark McGwire's yearly OPS for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.
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Mark McGwire OPS By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Mark McGwire's career OPS changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career OPS Mark McGwire had at that season in his career.
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Mark McGwire OPS By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Mark McGwire and related player groups by summarizing OPS for each season played by Mark McGwire. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!
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Mark McGwire OPS Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Mark McGwire OPS stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, 1B, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Mark McGwire career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.
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