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

The Cubs entered Monday ranked 23rd in runs (51) this month, 25th in OPS (.661) and batting average (.227) and 29th in on-base percentage (.278). —Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025

Entering Sunday, the Giants rank 19th in runs (163) and 21st in OPS (.691) since the beginning of May. —Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 June 2025

Noun

In 2018, Bezos hired Sánchez’s company, Black Ops Aviation, to film a promo for his rocket company, Blue Origin, according to Yahoo News. —Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025

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

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