Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	NYY	42	127	0	16	.228	.582	78
2009	NYY	108	248	3	23	.270	.724	96
2010	NYY	150	477	5	47	.277	.762	105
2011	NYY	159	510	7	36	.259	.713	99
2012	NYY	16	31	0	3	.323	.804	111
2013	NYY	145	539	8	52	.273	.759	106
2014	NYY	148	555	17	58	.256	.749	107
2015	NYY	151	571	16	66	.259	.742	103
2016	NYY	148	547	7	41	.261	.713	96
2017	NYY	151	594	21	63	.264	.778	104
2018	NYY	140	530	12	45	.236	.690	95
2019	NYY	141	491	28	74	.251	.829	109
2020	NYY	49	130	5	15	.223	.747	101
2021	NYY	140	387	10	39	.222	.689	95
Career		1688	5737	139	578	.256	—	—

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.

2,536 BBE · 2015–2021 · 87.0 mph avg EV · 3.5% 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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