Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2016	LAA	54	112	5	12	.170	.611	83
2017	NYY	6	15	2	5	.267	1.067	142
2018	TB	61	190	10	32	.263	.863	119
2019	TB	127	410	19	63	.261	.822	109
2020	TB	42	122	3	16	.230	.741	100
2021	TB	83	258	11	45	.229	.758	104
2022	TB	113	356	11	52	.233	.729	103
2023	PIT	39	104	6	13	.163	.624	85
Career		525	1567	67	238	.234	—	—

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.

1,102 BBE · 2016–2023 · 91.0 mph avg EV · 10.7% 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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