Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2018	PIT	59	178	6	17	.287	.785	108
2019	TB	138	530	33	89	.291	.922	122
2020	TB	36	132	4	13	.205	.667	90
2021	TB	142	518	27	106	.234	.772	106
2022	DET	36	128	0	11	.250	.675	96
2023	DET	6	21	0	2	.238	.524	71
Career		417	1507	70	238	.259	—	—

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.

1,151 BBE · 2018–2023 · 89.5 mph avg EV · 9.3% 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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