Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2017	LAD	15	23	1	1	.174	.544	72
2018	LAD	37	77	1	4	.260	.706	97
2019	LAD	106	343	12	44	.294	.817	108
2020	BOS	53	201	6	15	.308	.844	114
2021	BOS	146	544	13	63	.289	.777	107
2022	BOS	152	593	11	74	.280	.732	104
2023	BOS	142	546	13	54	.264	.745	101
2024	NYY	149	559	13	61	.233	.647	91
2025	ATL	56	197	0	12	.239	.585	81
Career		856	3083	70	328	.270	—	—

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.

2,585 BBE · 2017–2025 · 88.9 mph avg EV · 5.8% 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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