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John Grochowski | For the Sun-Times

DARK SECRETS: Why ops isn t perfect indicator when calculating ops | Rare Historical Photos

The Cubs’ Cody Bellinger has a .935 OPS and a 147 OPS+. The latter number means he has been 147% as productive as an average major-league hitter.

Add Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger’s .379 on-base percentage and .556 slugging percentage, and he has a .935 OPS that ranks eighth among major-leaguers with at least 300 plate appearances.

But by OPS+, as calculated at Baseball-Reference.com, Bellinger (147) trails the Padres’ Juan Soto (155) and the Rays’ Yandy Diaz (154), even though Bellinger leads Soto by 20 OPS points and Diaz by 21.

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