Top 10 career slugging% and OPS

coolstanley

Slugging%

1. Babe Ruth
2. Ted Williams
3. Lou Gehrig
4. Aaron Judge
5. Jimmie Foxx
6. Barry Bonds
7. Hank Greenberg
8. Mark Mcgwire
9. Manny Ramirez
10. Shohei Ohtani

OPS

1. Babe Ruth
2. Ted Williams
3. Lou Gehrig
4. Barry Bonds
5. Jimmie Foxx
6. Aaron Judge
7. Hank Greenberg
8. Rogers Hornsby
9. Manny Ramirez
10. Mike Trout

craig44

pretty impressive showing by judge. I think he will fall quite a ways as he ages though. he got a late start and had lots of missed time during his prime. so I fear his old man years will be a large portion of his career abś. that will drag down his rates

Basebal21

Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Ruth had over 10600 plate appearances, not counting the playoffs. Judge isnt even at 4600. Even Trout is at over 6700. Whats the threshold here when were talking about guys that have a massive more amount of plate appearances and at bats

coolstanley

@Basebal21 said:
Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Probably. I dont know the thresholds, so I included them.

Basebal21

@coolstanley said:

@Basebal21 said:
Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Probably. I dont know the thresholds, so I included them.

I can kind of see including Trout on there but I would take Judge and Othani out. Even with Ted williams not playing for several years during WW2 he still has double their plate appearances. Greenburg lost some years during the war as well so I think the floor should probably be 6000, I think Othani will eventually get there but just not yet

coinkat

I would think Ralph Kiner would have made The slugging % list

1948_Swell_Robinson

@craig44 said:
pretty impressive showing by judge. I think he will fall quite a ways as he ages though. he got a late start and had lots of missed time during his prime. so I fear his old man years will be a large portion of his career abś. that will drag down his rates

After his breakout year in 2017 Judge had three injury riddled seasons that, looking what he has done in the last four years, I believe those injuries really hampered his ability during those years.

I hope he stays healthy going forward.

1948_Swell_Robinson

@Basebal21 said:
Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Ruth had over 10600 plate appearances, not counting the playoffs. Judge isnt even at 4600. Even Trout is at over 6700. Whats the threshold here when were talking about guys that have a massive more amount of plate appearances and at bats

If you think that is bad, imagine someone drawing a conclusion based off of 12 at bats?

1948_Swell_Robinson

@Basebal21 said:
Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Ruth had over 10600 plate appearances, not counting the playoffs. Judge isnt even at 4600. Even Trout is at over 6700. Whats the threshold here when were talking about guys that have a massive more amount of plate appearances and at bats

Thats the age old longevity vs prime dilemma.

Trout's first eight years where he was healthy and not hampered by injuries his OPS was 1.009 in 5,183 plate appearances.
Willie Mays's best eight year OPS stretch was .997 in 5,293 plate appearances.

Of course, Mays put up a bunch of other years at a high level on top of that but his older years dragged down his career percentages from their primes.

George Brett's best eight year stretch was .937 but in only 4,365 plate appearances. Some would say that his percentages don't mean as much in those years since he didn't play as much and took.more time off to heal from minor injuries or sit vs a tough lefty(although some of that was missing 30 games in 1981 strike)

Basebal21

@1948_Swell_Robinson said:

@Basebal21 said:
Shouldnt career stats exclude active players

Ruth had over 10600 plate appearances, not counting the playoffs. Judge isnt even at 4600. Even Trout is at over 6700. Whats the threshold here when were talking about guys that have a massive more amount of plate appearances and at bats

Thats the age old longevity vs prime dilemma.

Trout's first eight years where he was healthy and not hampered by injuries his OPS was 1.009 in 5,183 plate appearances.
Willie Mays's best eight year OPS stretch was .997 in 5,293 plate appearances.

Of course, Mays put up a bunch of other years at a high level on top of that but his older years dragged down his career percentages from their primes.

George Brett's best eight year stretch was .937 but in only 4,365 plate appearances. Some would say that his percentages don't mean as much in those years since he didn't play as much and took.more time off to heal from minor injuries or sit vs a tough lefty(although some of that was missing 30 games in 1981 strike)

For sure. I took the question as the best career overall and certainly the best prime changes it a lot.