Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	CWS	136	480	21	77	.290	.792	106
2009	CWS	148	542	15	68	.277	.723	96
2010	CWS	156	585	18	70	.282	.744	102
2011	CWS	158	614	15	70	.269	.727	101
2012	CWS	158	593	9	73	.265	.651	90
2013	CWS	158	637	6	48	.284	.693	97
2014	CWS	158	622	15	74	.273	.713	102
2015	CWS	154	583	10	62	.249	.642	89
2016	SD	145	478	6	48	.241	.610	83
Career		1371	5134	115	590	.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.

919 BBE · 2015–2016 · 84.6 mph avg EV · 0.8% 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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