Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	TB	5	10	0	0	.200	.400	53
2010	TB	109	339	5	44	.263	.750	103
2011	TB	89	246	5	27	.224	.651	90
2012	SEA	108	294	10	50	.276	.850	117
2013	ATH	70	207	3	21	.271	.759	106
2014	ATH	99	307	9	40	.264	.767	110
2015	TB	70	185	5	22	.286	.839	116
2016	PIT	132	380	8	42	.268	.766	104
2017	PIT	126	256	10	35	.211	.730	97
Career		808	2224	55	281	.258	—	—

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.

630 BBE · 2015–2017 · 87.2 mph avg EV · 7.0% 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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