Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	MIN	85	299	7	40	.311	.799	110
2011	MIN	154	564	15	72	.246	.677	94
2012	MIN	44	154	3	21	.188	.497	69
2013	BAL	52	161	8	23	.304	.888	124
2014	TOR	86	264	4	30	.258	.667	95
2015	ATH	105	345	18	66	.290	.864	120
2016	ATH	130	471	17	51	.287	.792	107
2017	SEA	130	450	15	66	.256	.725	97
2018	BAL	79	255	9	28	.263	.723	99
Career		865	2963	96	397	.268	—	—

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.

1,154 BBE · 2015–2018 · 90.1 mph avg EV · 7.8% 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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