Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	KC	46	178	2	21	.247	.649	90
2012	KC	53	181	1	15	.238	.574	79
2013	KC	14	41	0	4	.220	.626	88
2014	KC	12	37	1	5	.216	.593	85
2015	LAA	129	453	4	49	.272	.694	96
2016	LAA	99	346	6	31	.260	.662	90
2017	BAL	7	10	0	0	.100	.200	27
Career		360	1246	14	125	.255	—	—

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.

696 BBE · 2015–2017 · 85.7 mph avg EV · 1.3% 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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