Babe Ruth OPS

Babe Ruth Career OPS Overview

OPS, which stands for On-base Plus Slugging, is a statistic used in baseball to measure a player's overall offensive performance. It combines a player's on-base percentage (OBP) and slugging percentage (SLG) into a single number. Babe Ruth, one of the most dominant hitters in baseball history, had a career OPS of 1.164, which is one of the highest in the history of the game.

Ruth's OBP, which measures the percentage of times a player reaches base safely, was .474 over his career. This was an exceptional number, and ranks among the highest in baseball history. Ruth was known for his patient approach at the plate, and his ability to draw walks was a major reason for his high OBP. He led the league in OBP ten times during his career, and finished his career with more walks than strikeouts.

Ruth's SLG, which measures the power and extra base hitting ability of a player, was .690 over his career. This was also an exceptional number and ranks as the second highest in baseball history. Ruth's ability to hit for power was legendary, and his 714 career home runs are a testament to his exceptional power and hitting ability.

By combining Ruth's exceptional OBP and SLG, his career OPS of 1.164 is one of the highest in baseball history. His ability to get on base and hit for power was a major reason for his success as a hitter, and helped him to establish himself as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.

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)

Babe Ruth Lifetime OPS

Stats similar to OPS for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth OPS
Career	1.159
Season Avg.	1.07
162 Game Avg.	1.159
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Babe Ruth OPS By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth'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, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Babe Ruth OPS By Year Change

This waterfall chart attempts to show how Babe Ruth's career OPS changed per season. This data is cumulative for each season, each column represents the career OPS Babe Ruth had at that season in his career.

Babe Ruth OPS By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing OPS for each season played by Babe Ruth. 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!

Babe Ruth OPS Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth 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, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Babe Ruth 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.