OPS - a baseball stat that measures the sum of two statistics: on-base percentage, which is a measure of how frequently a hitter reaches base per plate appearances, a stat which includes sacrifice flies, bases on balls/walks, and hit-by-pitches, which are not logged as official at-bats, and slugging percentage, which measures the average number of total bases from base hits per official at-bat.
The current selection is the top 10 across both the American and National League. I’ve left the question open to add other players if they get hot in late July to the end of the season.
Players will be resolved YES for any final OPS at 0.9995 or above. Will round up according to their final reported season total on Baseball Reference website.
Midseason trades that affect a player’s overall qualifications will NOT affect his eligibility for this market. If his cumulative OPS across the American League and National League stats as a result of an interleague trade still exceeds 0.9995, I will resolve YES.
A player must have 3.1 plate appearances per team game played during the regular season to qualify. This will total roughly 502 plate appearances at the end of the regular season.
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3.00Updated all players on this market through games completed on 9/26/2024. With roughly 3-4 games to go, I'd argue only the top 4-5 have a realistic shot at getting over or maintaining a 1.000+ OPS before the end of the season, but Ohtani did have that 27 pt single-game swing. Someone could pop off and have three of those games in a row. Improbable, but not impossible.
Edit: I said 1.000+ here, but remember, I will round up for this market even though I often don't. A 0.9995+ will be accepted as 1.000. It's probably due my knowledge of how Ted Williams finished his .406 season in 1941.
A quick update to the player on this market prior to 8/7/2024 games:
Gunnar Henderson, Shohei Ohtani, and Bobby Witt Jr have all crossed the qualifying threshold of 502 plate appearances on the season. It is now up to them to maintain or attain the 1.000 OPS threshold by season’s end.
Juan Soto and Aaron Judge are almost there (501 and 497 respectively).
Christian Yelich, who has been on and off the IL since the All-Star Break is unlikely to reach the qualifying threshold with only 315 PAs on the season.