Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	STL	17	31	1	7	.323	.837	111
2010	STL	70	240	4	36	.296	.765	105
2011	STL	97	333	10	55	.297	.791	110
2012	STL	144	501	20	79	.293	.839	116
2013	STL	138	462	9	60	.262	.721	101
2014	LAA	134	462	10	55	.260	.704	101
2015	LAA	121	424	14	56	.257	.743	103
2016	PIT	141	437	13	55	.270	.764	103
2017	PIT	130	426	10	52	.263	.739	98
2018	PIT	113	280	11	51	.296	.830	114
2019	LAD	79	162	11	29	.315	1.002	132
Career		1184	3758	113	535	.277	—	—

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.

1,236 BBE · 2015–2019 · 90.0 mph avg EV · 8.4% 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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