Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	STL	16	17	0	1	.176	.569	79
2012	STL	26	72	2	14	.333	.952	131
2013	STL	143	410	1	35	.217	.548	77
2014	STL	14	23	0	0	.304	.819	117
2015	STL	76	99	0	2	.152	.388	54
2017	TEX	39	45	1	2	.111	.378	50
2018	DET	27	69	1	8	.217	.584	80
2021	ATH	3	11	0	0	.091	.258	35
Career		344	746	5	62	.213	—	—

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.

160 BBE · 2015–2021 · 83.0 mph avg EV · 0.6% 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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