Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2018	PIT	31	91	0	6	.209	.478	66
2019	PIT	130	493	12	64	.308	.800	106
2020	PIT	44	156	1	10	.224	.556	75
2021	PIT	148	517	5	39	.226	.574	79
2022	PIT	78	288	2	24	.274	.687	97
2023	CIN	74	225	3	28	.253	.675	92
2024	AZ	111	288	3	28	.278	.686	96
2025	LAA	57	114	2	11	.202	.481	67
Career		673	2172	28	210	.259	—	—

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.

1,894 BBE · 2018–2025 · 84.7 mph avg EV · 1.8% 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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