I wrote basically this same thing last October, but after another Carlos Beltran playoff homer last night it’s probably time for an update.
Beltran is now a career .357 hitter with 15 homers, 10 doubles, and 25 walks in 35 playoff games, which is good for a 1.244 OPS that’s the highest in baseball history among players with at least 100 postseason plate appearances:
OPS CARLOS BELTRAN 1.244 Babe Ruth 1.211 Lou Gehrig 1.208
Beltran also has the highest playoff slugging percentage of all time, also ahead of Ruth and Gehrig. This is the eighth playoff series of Beltran’s career and he has an OPS above .950 in six of them and an OPS above 1.400 in three of them. What a stud.