Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	TOR	95	362	12	37	.262	.769	107
2012	TOR	86	271	9	25	.232	.672	93
2017	MIL	138	469	31	63	.247	.877	117
2018	MIL	96	247	16	37	.219	.783	108
2019	MIL	149	396	25	61	.247	.851	112
2020	WSH	41	123	3	12	.203	.617	83
Career		605	1868	96	235	.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.

786 BBE · 2017–2020 · 89.6 mph avg EV · 11.1% 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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