Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2005	MIL	124	372	9	50	.247	.711	95
2006	MIL	35	128	5	14	.242	.693	90
2007	MIL	151	592	26	80	.277	.786	104
2008	MIL	146	569	24	74	.283	.821	110
2009	MIL	115	414	11	47	.229	.659	88
2010	MIN	101	340	6	38	.268	.714	98
2011	BAL	129	527	30	80	.269	.801	111
2012	BAL	158	663	22	68	.238	.671	93
2013	BAL	159	601	25	76	.263	.738	103
2014	BAL	141	529	9	52	.268	.682	97
2015	BAL	114	411	8	37	.219	.564	78
2016	BAL	115	405	9	48	.269	.716	97
2017	BAL	73	254	4	24	.217	.578	77
Career		1561	5805	188	688	.256	—	—

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.

866 BBE · 2015–2017 · 88.2 mph avg EV · 2.8% 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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