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

In 51 games, Bregman hit .299 with a 938 OPS and 11 homers. —Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 25 May 2025

Dominguez got off to a slow start this season, hitting just .228 through March and April with two home runs, 12 RBIs and an OPS of .687. —Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025

Noun

First Slate’s founder is Jarrett Furst, a producer on VMI Worldwide’s recent EFM action-comedy Special Ops Rent-A-Cop. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 May 2025

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

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