With the St. Louis Cardinals‘ fourth (!!!) straight series win in Miami, Matt Carpenter added another two homers to his now league-leading home run total and now leads the National League in the following categories: home runs, doubles, slugging, OPS, extra-base hits, ISO and others that can be nit picked and sliced up in many ways to make him look great.
While that list is admittedly choosing related power stats that all show the similar point that he is the best power hitter in the NL, he does have a legitimate chance to lead the league in homers and OPS the rest of the way, which brings me to the point of this article; OPS deserves it’s own place among the triple crown (batting average, home runs, RBI’s) statistics to create, the diamond crown.