Interesting List for All Time Sluggers

The things one will do in the middle of a blizzard. With time to kill, the Fan took all the sluggers with 400 or more home runs and made an all time OPS list. For those who don't know. OPS equals On Base Percentage (OBP) plus Slugging Percentage. Slugging Percentage equals Total Bases divided by At Bats. The list is interesting:

1. 
   Ruth 1.159
2. 
   Ted Williams 1.116
3. 
   Gehrig 1.074
4. 
   Bonds 1.051
5. 
   Foxx 1.034
6. 
   M. Ramirez 1.004
7. 
   McGwire .982
8. 
   Mantle .979
9. 
   Musial .976
10. 
    F. Thomas .974
11. 
    A. Rodriguez .967
12. 
    Thome .966
13. 
    Chipper Jones .956
14. 
    Bagwell .948
15. 
    Ott .943
    Mays .943
16. 
    Aaron .929
    Delgado .929
17. 
    Robinson .926
18. 
    Piazza .922
19. 
    Griffey .920
20. 
    Snider .919
21. 
    Sheffield .910
22. 
    Schmidt .907
23. 
    J. Gonzalez .904
24. 
    McCovey .889
25. 
    Stargell .889
26. 
    Palmeiro .886
27. 
    McGriff .886
28. 
    E. Matthews .886
29. 
    Killebrew .885
30. 
    Sosa .878
31. 
    Canseco .868
32. 
    Billy Williams .853
33. 
    R. Jackson .846
34. 
    Yastrzemski .841
35. 
    Murray .835
36. 
    Banks .831
37. 
    Winfield .828
38. 
    Dawson .805
39. 
    Darrell Evans .792
40. 
    C. Ripken .787
41. 
    Kingman .780

Some comments about the list: First, many of the current players on the list will drop if they continue playing past their peak. For example, Sheffield showed a big drop in productivity this past year and his lifetime OPS dropped and will continue to do so as he plays out his career. The same can be said for players who played longer than they should have such as Willie Mays, Winfield and Reggie Jackson. Secondly, the list proves out what the Fan has always believed: Cal Ripken, Andre Dawson and Carl Yastrzemski were vastly overrated as sluggers shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. Hey, if that statement is true for Dave Kingman, it is true for Ripken and Darrell Evans.

The surprises on the list are Mantle at number 8 and Manny Ramirez at number 6. There is no surprise that Musial is at number 9. He is the most overlooked superstar and is the greatest living player of the bygone era. If OPS is more important than home run totals as most stat heads now consider it is, then the case seems to be made that Jeff Bagwell is a hall of famer as is Mike Piazza. It also seems to indicate that Ruth, Gehrig and Ted Williams are the greatest sluggers of all time.