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

On Tuesday, Bleacher Report's Tim Kelly predicted that the Phillies would find a way to keep Schwarber, though the writer expected the competition to be fierce for the free agent class leader in OPS. —Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

Since May 18, Milwaukee led the big leagues in runs per game (5.66) and average with runners in scoring position (.309), and was second in OPS (.781). —Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025

Noun

Some successful military shooters like The Division might periodically scratch the itch, but not since the early days of Battlefield has there been any meaningful alternative to the mindless run-and-gun antics of Black Ops. —Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025

The missions are both Solo Ops, solo-only Portal missions that run you through various old zones with new objectives and a boss. —Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 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