Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	MIN	93	347	6	47	.294	.819	109
2009	MIN	145	578	8	68	.311	.807	108
2010	MIN	153	629	3	58	.264	.679	93
2011	MIN	70	284	2	16	.264	.687	95
2012	MIN	128	516	4	41	.283	.738	102
2013	WSH	153	610	4	47	.279	.707	99
2014	WSH	147	610	5	37	.302	.771	110
2015	WSH	61	246	5	22	.301	.796	110
2016	SF	143	572	11	53	.266	.712	96
2017	SF	129	497	12	43	.272	.756	101
2018	SEA	137	437	11	58	.261	.760	104
Career		1359	5326	71	490	.281	—	—

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.

1,476 BBE · 2015–2018 · 86.2 mph avg EV · 3.0% 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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