Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2007	KC	92	329	8	52	.292	.794	105
2008	KC	124	443	11	55	.275	.724	97
2009	KC	159	608	21	93	.301	.853	114
2010	KC	158	595	15	78	.318	.857	118
2011	KC	159	597	19	95	.291	.822	114
2012	KC	161	614	29	107	.313	.882	122
2013	KC	162	582	15	82	.289	.787	110
2014	KC	151	549	9	66	.271	.702	100
2015	ATH	151	538	15	65	.251	.713	99
2016	ATH	97	250	5	35	.284	.752	102
Career		1414	5105	147	728	.290	—	—

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.

635 BBE · 2015–2016 · 89.7 mph avg EV · 7.9% 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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