In putting together this new stats page on the top Cubs career OPS+ leaders, I ran a report using Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index. While the leaderboard page lists the top 25 players (with at least 2500 career Cubs plate appearances), it doesn't list the player who comes up last on the report: Eddie Miksis. Miksis posted a 66 OPS+ in his Cubs career, encompassing 2515 plate appearances, from 1951 to 1956. That's, at least, better than his overall career mark of 62.

Miksis was a utility player, starting regularly only in 1953 and 1955. He played second and short from 1951-54 after coming over from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 8-player trade involving Andy Pafko. (The trade occurred just before game time between the two teams.) In 1955, he played primarily centerfield, and in 1956 he played most of the time at third base while also playing all three outfield spots. After the 1956 season, the Cubs traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in another 8-player trade. In no season with the Cubs did he have an OPS higher than 663. His Baseball Prospectus defensive metrics are nothing more than average.

Miksis broke into the big leagues with the Dodgers as a 17-year-old in 1944. He then spent almost two years in the Navy, returning in 1946, playing for the Dodgers in the World Series in both 1947 and 1949 (something he obvisously never got to do with the Cubs). The Cubs never had a winning record during Miksis's time with them.

By the time he played his last game in 1958 as a 31-year-old, he had spent fourteen seasons in the big leagues.

Miksis died in April 2005 at the age of 78.