Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2012	PIT	42	62	1	5	.210	.636	88
2013	PIT	103	333	8	27	.285	.772	108
2014	PIT	149	506	12	55	.255	.693	99
2015	PIT	116	394	3	34	.244	.613	85
2016	PIT	149	519	11	59	.256	.701	95
2017	PIT	145	502	14	58	.255	.733	98
2018	PIT	117	394	6	39	.251	.696	96
2019	DET	74	256	9	22	.270	.747	99
2020	NYY	9	20	0	0	.200	.473	64
2021	WSH	46	118	2	9	.254	.671	92
Career		950	3104	66	308	.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.

1,767 BBE · 2015–2021 · 86.6 mph avg EV · 3.5% 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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