Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	PIT	19	23	0	0	.261	.596	82
2011	PIT	52	215	4	20	.298	.804	112
2012	PIT	104	346	10	25	.237	.683	94
2013	MIN	57	185	3	15	.276	.686	96
2014	HOU	89	254	6	19	.244	.628	90
2015	HOU	8	12	0	1	.250	.558	77
2016	MIL	50	121	3	11	.198	.558	76
2017	DET	71	245	3	20	.314	.770	103
Career		450	1401	29	111	.263	—	—

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.

296 BBE · 2015–2017 · 85.5 mph avg EV · 2.0% 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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