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.
Similarly, center fielder Luis Robert Jr. leads the White Sox with an .889 OPS, 14th in the majors. But his 138 OPS+ is only one point better than that of the Rays’ Isaac Paredes, whose OPS is .