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I ask you to use the honor system and not look this up. I know I would have failed if someone asked me this question:

Name the Orioles' top 10 in single season OPS. Among qualifiers (essentially 502 PAs, although nobody is on the list in a short season - take that as a clue). Since 1954.

Clue #2: Only one name repeats.

I'll be impressed if anyone gets all nine names. Pretty impressed if you know #1. Very, very impressed if you don't cheat and know years, or order. If you know the actual OPSes I'll assume you're cheating.

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couldn't give years or anything like that but I'm going to take a stab at the 9 names.

Reggie Jackson

Chris Davis

Eddie Murray

Frank Robinson

Cal Ripken Jr

Boog Powell

Brady Anderson

Rafael Palmeiro

Jim Gentile (this is a complete shot in the dark, he was well before my time. I just remember during Davis's 2013 season Gentile appeared on the Orioles single season HR leaders list)

If I had to guess on the name appearing 2x I would guess Murray

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I don't think I could do it in order from highest OPS to lowest but I'm going to assume...

Frank Robinson - 1966 and '67 (he's the only name that repeats, I'm guessing)

Cal Ripken - 1991

Jim Gentile - 1961 (I'm guessing he's got the highest season in franchise history. Monster season overshadowed by Mantle and Maris)

Brady Anderson -1996

The hardest part with Eddie Murray is that he didn't have one big WOW season. He had a lot of really good seasons, but I don't think he'd NOT be on this list. It has to be one of his years where he was runner up in in the MVP race.

Eddie Murray - 1982 or 1983 ( I know I said Frank repeats but I can't figure out what year to choose here).

Boog Powell - I remember that he had a big season other than his MVP season because his MVP season wasn't over 1.000 and it wasn't his best season, statistically. It was like '64 or '65 he had his 1.000 ops year

Chris Davis - 2013 of course.

It's getting harder.

I was going to go with Ken Singleton but I think Chris Hoiles might actually be here so I'm going to roll with him. Though I don't know if he had the 502 at bats.

That's 9 names but I feel that there's probably got to be someone else who I've overlooked.

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I don't think I could do it in order from highest OPS to lowest but I'm going to assume...

Frank Robinson - 1966 and '67 (he's the only name that repeats, I'm guessing)

Cal Ripken - 1991

Jim Gentile - 1961

Brady Anderson -1996

The hardest part with Eddie Murray is that he didn't have one big WOW season. He had a lot of really good seasons, but I don't think he'd NOT be on this list. It has to be one of his years where he was runner up in in the MVP race.

Eddie Murray - 1982 or 1983 ( I know I said Frank repeats but I can't figure out what year to choose here).

Boog Powell - I remember that he had a big season other than his MVP season because his MVP season wasn't over 1.000 and it wasn't his best season, statistically. It was like '64 or '65 he had his 1.000 ops year

Chris Davis - 2013 of course.

It's getting harder.

I was going to go with Ken Singleton but I think Chris Hoiles might actually be here so I'm going to roll with him. Though I don't know if he had the 502 at bats.

That's 9 names but I feel that there's probably got to be someone else who I've overlooked.

Reggie Jackson was the last Oriole to lead the league in Slugging (mlb network trivia question last week), would be surprise if he wasn't on this list, but maybe not.

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I ask you to use the honor system and not look this up. I know I would have failed if someone asked me this question:

Name the Orioles' top 10 in single season OPS. Among qualifiers (essentially 502 PAs, although nobody is on the list in a short season - take that as a clue). Since 1954.

Clue #2: Only one name repeats.

I'll be impressed if anyone gets all nine names. Pretty impressed if you know #1. Very, very impressed if you don't cheat and know years, or order. If you know the actual OPSes I'll assume you're cheating.

Number one might be Jim Gentile. He had a heck of a year in 1961. MVP type season most years, but there was two guys named Maris and Mantle who kind of went off that year.

My nine guesses in no particular order:

Jim Gentile

Cal Ripken

Brady Anderson

Eddie Murray

Frank Robinson

Boog Powell

Chris Davis

Rafael Palmeiro

Chris Hoiles

I'm pretty sure Hoiles had a monster year in the 90's. I wanted to say Brooks, but I don't think he ever put up a monster OPS year. He had a MVP season in 1964, but I don't think he had the slugging necessary to make this list. Other guys that came to mind were Tejada, Reggie, and Roberto Alomar, but I don't think any of them put up a season with Baltimore that would have made this list. How'd I do?

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I'm a little rusty on posting lists here, but here is my ascending order:

Brooks Robinson 2X's

Frank Robinson

Cal Ripken (would be 2X's)

Eddy Murray

Miguel Tejada

Manny Machado

Boog Powell

Eric Davis, if he had the AB's.

No chance Brooks made this list, he was known for his glove not his bat

Tejada probably doesn't make this list either

Machado had his best year last year and he still only OPS at 861, that isn't getting you on this list.

I forgot about Eric Davis, he could quite possibly be on the list.

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I ask you to use the honor system and not look this up. I know I would have failed if someone asked me this question:

Name the Orioles' top 10 in single season OPS. Among qualifiers (essentially 502 PAs, although nobody is on the list in a short season - take that as a clue). Since 1954.

Clue #2: Only one name repeats.

I'll be impressed if anyone gets all nine names. Pretty impressed if you know #1. Very, very impressed if you don't cheat and know years, or order. If you know the actual OPSes I'll assume you're cheating.

Ripken

Palmeiro

Murray

Frank Robinson

Brooks Robinson

Brady Anderson

Alomar

Davey Johnson

Boog

#1 all time Alomar

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