Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2004	ATL	110	324	13	45	.278	.821	108
2005	ATL	141	451	20	78	.259	.775	103
2006	ATL	149	492	32	90	.285	.915	119
2007	PIT	152	563	21	88	.272	.803	106
2008	PIT	136	492	25	85	.270	.841	112
2009	PIT	150	555	25	83	.277	.843	112
2010	AZ	151	560	25	100	.261	.788	108
2011	WSH	43	151	3	15	.172	.546	76
2012	WSH	154	571	33	100	.271	.853	118
2013	WSH	152	511	20	62	.237	.735	103
2014	WSH	140	494	26	92	.259	.817	117
2015	CWS	127	429	12	44	.207	.634	88
Career		1605	5593	255	882	.260	—	—

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.

289 BBE · 2015–2015 · 89.6 mph avg EV · 8.3% 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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