Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	SEA	90	333	6	36	.273	.766	106
2012	SEA	153	607	12	50	.226	.622	86
2013	SEA	113	384	4	31	.253	.660	92
2014	SEA	143	502	14	65	.245	.692	99
2015	SEA	108	238	10	30	.231	.712	99
2016	NYY	28	61	0	4	.148	.390	53
Career		635	2125	46	216	.241	—	—

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.

246 BBE · 2015–2016 · 89.8 mph avg EV · 5.3% 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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