Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	DET	29	61	5	14	.279	.965	129
2010	DET	104	294	7	31	.228	.656	90
2011	DET	141	464	19	82	.295	.895	124
2012	DET	116	367	9	48	.243	.736	102
2013	DET	102	330	11	47	.227	.693	97
2014	DET	124	390	11	47	.218	.686	98
2015	DET	67	178	4	13	.191	.626	87
2016	CWS	57	169	7	11	.213	.732	99
2017	DET	112	311	14	49	.264	.834	111
2018	AZ	80	194	7	20	.165	.603	83
2019	AZ	63	164	9	24	.207	.774	102
2020	MIN	23	49	1	2	.184	.641	87
2021	WSH	34	89	1	9	.191	.694	95
Career		1052	3060	105	397	.233	—	—

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.

677 BBE · 2015–2021 · 90.4 mph avg EV · 12.9% 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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