Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	NYM	17	53	0	9	.321	.752	100
2010	NYM	73	202	3	17	.277	.723	99
2011	NYM	114	340	3	40	.268	.690	96
2012	NYM	104	321	1	21	.234	.584	81
2013	TOR	45	120	1	8	.175	.497	70
2014	TOR	57	133	0	7	.248	.598	85
2015	TOR	18	49	0	2	.204	.495	69
2016	TOR	50	118	1	7	.169	.474	64
Career		478	1336	9	111	.242	—	—

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.

131 BBE · 2015–2016 · 85.4 mph avg EV · 1.5% 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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