Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2017	STL	108	417	25	65	.285	.857	114
2018	STL	115	436	19	68	.241	.746	103
2019	STL	159	583	30	78	.233	.762	101
2020	STL	45	152	3	25	.250	.671	91
2021	STL	113	356	19	45	.197	.674	93
2022	STL	77	210	6	25	.157	.530	75
2023	STL	112	372	14	38	.207	.612	83
2024	CWS	139	445	24	56	.227	.703	99
2025	WSH	57	193	6	23	.228	.642	89
Career		925	3164	146	423	.229	—	—

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.

2,201 BBE · 2017–2025 · 87.4 mph avg EV · 9.2% 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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