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

Of those six positions where he’s hit most frequently, his highest average and OPS have been from the seventh spot (.298/.873) and his next best were at leadoff (.278/.760). —David O'Brien, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025

As well as ranking 16th in batting average and 21st in OPS, Bregman also ranks 20th in slugging percentage. —Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025

Noun

The devs have struck a really nice balance between the original gameplay and the changes made at the release of Black Ops 6. —Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025

Each soap purchase includes a redemption code for exclusive downloadable content in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 — specifically, a custom in-game calling card. —Wwd Staff, WWD, 21 Mar. 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