Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	TB	17	21	0	2	.190	.625	86
2011	TB	63	247	10	25	.259	.805	112
2012	TB	132	505	13	47	.246	.702	97
2013	TB	139	527	14	54	.252	.748	105
2014	TB	123	479	10	36	.244	.697	100
2015	TB	28	97	1	7	.268	.664	92
2016	TB	65	200	7	20	.200	.631	85
Career		567	2076	55	191	.245	—	—

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.

223 BBE · 2015–2016 · 86.5 mph avg EV · 3.6% 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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