Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2004	TB	45	159	4	12	.258	.733	96
2006	TB	50	175	1	10	.246	.593	77
2007	TB	129	474	24	82	.300	.894	118
2008	TB	145	531	9	67	.273	.784	105
2009	TB	144	560	11	55	.241	.686	91
2010	TB	154	536	18	62	.237	.745	102
2011	TB	153	560	23	81	.243	.759	105
2012	TB	146	573	28	78	.246	.752	104
2013	ATL	126	391	9	26	.184	.557	78
2014	ATL	141	519	12	35	.208	.620	89
2015	SD	87	205	5	17	.259	.757	105
2016	SD	149	492	20	61	.238	.693	94
Career		1469	5175	164	586	.243	—	—

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.

479 BBE · 2015–2016 · 87.9 mph avg EV · 6.1% 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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