60 is the magic number. For the first time in baseball’s extensive history, the regular season will be a sprint, and not a marathon. This will place extra importance on each game and force teams to play their best cards from jump street. One team in particular has its own joker, that should give them…
The baseball statistic on-base + slugging percentage, or OPS, as it is more commonly called, has come to the forefront in evaluating a hitter’s ability to positively impact an offense. It is not a complex statistic by any means. The official definition is: OPS adds on-base percentage and slugging percentage to get one number that…