I'm entering this discussion quite late, but I tend to side with Ajay. OPS is a solid, useful stat, but I can't buy into as a perfectly accurate gauge of the degree to which someone is a "good" hitter because OPS is so skewed by power. If you read the previous post it was focused on OBP, not OPS. Take a screwy but legit example like Tony Gwynn (Sr.) & Russell Branyan: .847 career OPS for Gwynn vs. .826 for Branyan. Branyan gets a lotta love on this site, but could you realistically argue that Branyan's almost as good a hitter as Sr. Gwynn because they're only 21 pts. apart for career OPS? I have a feeling that plenty of OPS-biased folks could almost start believing that foolish notion to be true. Our discussion used all the slash stats. If I was looking at Gwynn vs Branyan I would be looking at OBP/SLG/OPS not just OPS. I rarely look at OPS without looking at the other 2. I highly doubt anybody would use only OPS to argue who was a better hitter especially when 1 point of OBP is considered to be worth 1.8-2 points of SLG. OPS is quick and a little dirty, but generally pretty accurate and easy to calculate. I would prefer wOBA.