I've been playing around looking at players age 30 and under on our roster and comparing to those 31 or older.
I split it that way so that Roberts could be with the "young guys". Arbitrary, sure...but hey, it's my post. Seriously, I look at him as part of the youth of the team, because he doesn't have a lot of major league PA's and he plays a very youthful style of ball.
The only guy over 31 with an OPS over 100 is Henry Blanco on the strength of those early season homers. Then it's a pretty steep drop to Willie and his 81.
Here is the quicky snapshot, below is the full table, sorted by PA's. The data speaks for itself.
| PA | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ | |
| 30 or under | 3905 | .255 | .332 | .440 | .772 | 108 |
| 31 or over | 933 | .239 | .289 | .345 | .634 | 72 |
| Pos | Age | PA | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | OPS+ |
| Justin Upton | 23 | 582 | 89 | 151 | 36 | 5 | 26 | 80 | 20 | 7 | 50 | 103 | .294 | .373 | .536 | .909 | 144 |
| Chris Young | 27 | 570 | 77 | 115 | 29 | 3 | 19 | 63 | 19 | 9 | 63 | 115 | .232 | .320 | .418 | .738 | 99 |
| Kelly Johnson* | 29 | 481 | 59 | 90 | 23 | 5 | 18 | 49 | 13 | 3 | 44 | 132 | .209 | .287 | .412 | .699 | 88 |
| Ryan Roberts | 30 | 475 | 74 | 105 | 21 | 1 | 17 | 52 | 16 | 8 | 60 | 80 | .257 | .353 | .438 | .791 | 114 |
| Miguel Montero* | 27 | 463 | 59 | 114 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 81 | .276 | .346 | .458 | .804 | 117 |
| Gerardo Parra* | 24 | 397 | 45 | 106 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 34 | 71 | .294 | .355 | .432 | .787 | 113 |
| Stephen Drew* | 28 | 354 | 44 | 81 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 74 | .252 | .317 | .396 | .713 | 93 |
| Juan Miranda* | 28 | 202 | 18 | 37 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 48 | .213 | .315 | .402 | .717 | 94 |
| Sean Burroughs* | 30 | 100 | 8 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 | .271 | .283 | .333 | .616 | 67 |
| Paul Goldschmidt | 23 | 89 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 29 | .256 | .315 | .488 | .802 | 115 |
| Collin Cowgill | 25 | 65 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 20 | .217 | .277 | .283 | .560 | 53 |
| Wily Mo Pena | 29 | 46 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | .196 | .196 | .522 | .717 | 87 |
| Brandon Allen* | 25 | 37 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 13 | .172 | .351 | .483 | .834 | 125 |
| Aaron Hill | 29 | 34 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | .355 | .412 | .581 | .992 | 167 |
| Josh Wilson | 30 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .500 | 34 |
| 3905 | 509 | 886 | 195 | 30 | 129 | 463 | 91 | 37 | 366 | 804 | .255 | .332 | .440 | .772 | 108 | ||
| Willie Bloomquist | 33 | 318 | 40 | 77 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 40 | .266 | .320 | .345 | .664 | 81 |
| Xavier Nady | 32 | 223 | 26 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 46 | .248 | .287 | .359 | .646 | 75 |
| Melvin Mora | 39 | 135 | 5 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 24 | .228 | .244 | .276 | .520 | 42 |
| Henry Blanco | 39 | 94 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 20 | .230 | .287 | .471 | .758 | 102 |
| Russell Branyan* | 35 | 69 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 20 | .210 | .290 | .339 | .629 | 71 |
| Cody Ransom | 35 | 37 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | .152 | .243 | .303 | .546 | 48 |
| Lyle Overbay* | 34 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .190 | .292 | .238 | .530 | 47 |
| John McDonald | 36 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .188 | .235 | .188 | .423 | 17 |
| Geoff Blum# | 38 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .200 | .250 | .467 | .717 | 90 |
| 933 | 87 | 205 | 38 | 1 | 17 | 94 | 18 | 11 | 54 | 174 | .239 | .289 | .345 | .634 | 72 |
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