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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Who was more important to their team? Rob Deer or Brett Butler? Of course OPS doesn't factor in a player's defense and it could be argued that Brett Butler is a far superior player to Rob Deer, but we're discussing hitting stats so....as far as hitting goes they were roughly equally important to their team.

And FWIW Pete Rose and Mel Ott both had lifetime .303 BA, but they could not have been more different as players. So I wouldn't exactly say that BA tells you more about a player than OPS.

Ott had a .947 OPS
Rose had a .784 OPS