Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	PIT	17	36	0	0	.194	.497	66
2010	PIT	110	426	12	66	.296	.811	111
2011	PIT	159	596	12	83	.273	.742	103
2012	PIT	129	472	14	69	.280	.768	106
2013	PIT	133	478	16	53	.251	.757	106
2014	PIT	137	512	23	76	.271	.809	116
2015	PIT	151	543	16	71	.269	.756	105
2016	NYM	113	412	23	55	.282	.823	111
2017	NYM	111	385	14	49	.265	.801	107
2018	NYY	113	347	11	46	.219	.664	91
2019	MIA	115	337	8	38	.261	.738	97
2020	PHI	18	39	0	3	.231	.552	75
Career		1306	4583	149	609	.267	—	—

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.

1,626 BBE · 2015–2020 · 87.6 mph avg EV · 5.8% 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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