Righty/Lefty batter splits OPS >+ 1.000 same year: Mike Trout conspicuous by his absence.

Mike Trout led the American League (AL) in OPS+ in 2012, 2015-2019. But Trout has not led in anything since 2019.

Righty/Lefty batters 1950-2024 OPS >+ 1.000 (vs RHP) and (vs LHP) same year.  Thursday, April 24, 2025

64 in those 75 seasons.

This link contains a lot of the data.

Plate Appearances (PA) requirement varies each year depending on the amount of pitching by righty and lefty pitchers as described in recent previous posts. Both batter splits must have OPS >= 1.000.

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My yearly PA split requirements during the Trout years; percentages are for outs recorded:

Year

Lefty%

Righty%

PAlefty

PArighty

2012	29.93%	70.07%	150	350
2013	28.81%	71.19%	144	356
2014	26.62%	73.38%	133	367
2015	26.90%	73.10%	135	365
2016	25.95%	74.05%	130	370
2017	25.70%	74.30%	129	371
2018	28.39%	71.61%	142	358
2019	27.58%	72.42%	138	362
2020	26.77%	73.23%	134	366
2021	29.62%	70.38%	148	352
2022	27.19%	72.81%	136	364
2023	26.37%	73.63%	132	368
2024	26.84%	73.16%	134	366
Year	Lefty%	Righty%	PAlefty	PArighty

Here are Trout's splits in seasons that might qualify (pa is the requirement in the table above:

	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2012	vs RHP	127	468	.999	173	413	23	.346	.410	.588	350
2012	vs LHP	63	171	.862	138	146	7	.267	.368	.493	150
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2013	vs RHP	150	523	1.000	178	437	21	.327	.428	.572	356
2013	vs LHP	82	193	.954	169	152	6	.309	.440	.513	144
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2014	vs RHP	148	529	.948	169	453	27	.291	.374	.574	367
2014	vs LHP	74	176	.910	156	149	9	.275	.386	.524	133
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2015	vs RHP	155	507	.978	168	431	31	.295	.391	.587	365
2015	vs LHP	67	175	1.032	186	144	10	.313	.434	.597	135
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2016	vs RHP	156	525	.996	170	422	22	.313	.442	.555	370
2016	vs LHP	63	156	.971	164	127	7	.323	.436	.535	130
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2017	vs RHP	111	401	1.113	193	320	30	.313	.441	.672	371
2017	vs LHP	43	106	.907	146	82	3	.281	.443	.463	129
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2018	vs RHP	135	462	1.118	205	358	33	.318	.462	.656	358
2018	vs LHP	61	146	.992	177	113	6	.292	.452	.540	142
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2019	vs RHP	129	416	1.124	195	327	35	.303	.442	.682	362
2019	vs LHP	76	184	.989	158	143	10	.266	.429	.559	138
	Split	G	PA	OPS	sOPS+	AB	HR	BA	OBP	SLG	pa
2022	vs RHP	116	361	.976	172	322	31	.273	.349	.627	364
2022	vs LHP	59	138	1.058	193	116	9	.310	.420	.638	136

One of the splits in two seasons do not meet the minimum: 2017 and 2022. That leaves 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019. That's 7 seasons. The five in bold are ridiculously close to having OPS >= 1.000 in both splits.

In the seasons that qualified, righty batting Trout has higher OPS vs LHP in only one: 2015.

sOPS+ >= 200 (twice league average): 205 in 2018 vs RHP. That's it. only once.

What the heck?