Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2006	AZ	6	16	0	3	.250	.607	79
2007	AZ	84	214	10	37	.224	.689	91
2008	AZ	70	184	5	18	.255	.765	102
2009	AZ	128	425	16	59	.294	.832	111
2010	AZ	85	297	9	43	.266	.770	106
2011	AZ	140	493	18	86	.282	.820	114
2012	AZ	141	486	15	88	.286	.829	114
2013	AZ	116	413	11	42	.230	.662	93
2014	AZ	136	489	13	72	.243	.699	100
2015	CHC	113	347	15	53	.248	.754	105
2016	CHC	86	241	8	33	.216	.684	93
2017	CHC	76	185	6	16	.216	.656	87
2018	WSH	4	11	0	0	.000	.154	21
Career		1185	3801	126	550	.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.

571 BBE · 2015–2018 · 86.8 mph avg EV · 6.5% 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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