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Brian H (misunderestimated)No stat can ever be perfect but you have to recognize its definition before simply discarding it. Musial is behind Mac because he played much longer and for several years at the end his good but not great seasons brought down his OPS. Mac was injured so much in his last seasons (of which there were fewer) that his sub-par performances didn't bring down his lifetime average as much.... like any statistic OPS+ doesn't take off points for things like being a jerk, being a great teammate (or a poor teammate) or using performance enhancing drugs...
It also neglects RBIs and Runs, which explains why Sam Thompson, statisically the greatest RBI man is outshown by several other 19th Century players. Thompson, by the way got many of his RBIs during the high scoring 1890's and hit behind some pretty good scorers (Hamilton, the greatest runs/game player ever) and Delehanty, who was a better hitter than Big Sam. The three of them made up the only outfield to ever have 3 .400 hitters in a season in 1894, the year the mound was moved back to its presnt distance.