Sammy Sosa Career OPS Overview

Sammy Sosa's OPS was 0.877 for his 18-year Major League Baseball career. 2001 was his best season when his OPS was 1.174 and his worst season was 1991 when his OPS was 0.572. Sammy Sosa is middlin' tier compared to similar player cohorts career totals, not clearly beating or being beat by D.R. (0.678419), Gen X (0.707566), mlb (0.677282), RF (0.722465), and Y (0.824577) 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)

Sammy Sosa Lifetime OPS

Stats similar to OPS for Sammy Sosa
Sammy Sosa
OPS
Career0.877
Season Avg.0.847
162 Game Avg.0.877
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Sammy Sosa OPS By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Sammy Sosa'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.
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Sammy Sosa OPS By Year Change

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

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Sammy Sosa and related player groups by summarizing OPS for each season played by Sammy Sosa. 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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Sammy Sosa OPS Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Sammy Sosa 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 Sammy Sosa 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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