Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2006	LAD	48	102	4	18	.284	.901	117
2007	LAD	96	344	15	67	.331	.919	121
2008	LAD	161	595	13	90	.289	.772	103
2009	LAD	158	576	13	90	.281	.756	101
2010	LAD	161	588	10	88	.267	.723	99
2011	LAD	158	531	12	65	.288	.755	105
2012	LAD	144	434	6	41	.249	.630	87
2013	TB	158	549	13	75	.299	.778	109
2014	TB	155	600	9	69	.290	.716	102
2015	TB	104	361	4	32	.280	.680	94
2016	NYM	100	343	9	34	.265	.703	95
Career		1443	5023	108	669	.284	—	—

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.

635 BBE · 2015–2016 · 86.4 mph avg EV · 1.4% 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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