Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2007	SD	8	18	0	0	.222	.611	81
2008	SD	91	331	9	38	.269	.757	101
2009	SD	156	543	12	64	.262	.734	98
2010	SD	161	610	11	58	.264	.702	96
2011	SD	113	381	4	44	.289	.773	107
2012	SD	161	604	31	115	.286	.875	121
2013	SD	141	520	13	50	.250	.747	105
2014	SD	135	470	13	49	.243	.700	100
2015	NYY	156	580	11	62	.259	.693	96
2016	NYY	140	467	14	51	.253	.716	97
2017	NYY	147	512	12	61	.273	.758	101
2018	SD	27	52	0	4	.115	.368	51
Career		1436	5088	130	596	.263	—	—

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.

1,206 BBE · 2015–2018 · 86.9 mph avg EV · 5.1% 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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