Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2013	MIN	81	281	8	27	.192	.597	84
2014	MIN	69	186	1	18	.215	.615	88
2015	MIN	97	352	11	33	.256	.721	100
2016	NYY	123	327	8	31	.217	.617	83
2017	NYY	88	301	15	52	.266	.847	113
2018	NYY	137	480	27	79	.248	.833	114
2019	NYY	59	221	12	36	.235	.769	102
2020	NYY	54	169	6	21	.225	.793	107
2021	NYY	32	108	4	14	.194	.627	86
2022	NYY	130	384	8	40	.216	.642	91
2023	BAL	93	269	8	36	.253	.735	100
2024	LAA	18	57	1	5	.140	.415	58
Career		981	3135	109	392	.231	—	—

Barrel Surface

Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.

2,012 BBE · 2015–2024 · 88.1 mph avg EV · 6.5% barrels

LEAGUE xwOBA0.02.0

BATTED BALLS11025+

The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.

The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.

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