Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2005	SEA	10	18	0	1	.056	.246	33
2006	CLE	49	157	3	22	.280	.812	106
2007	CLE	6	17	0	5	.294	.644	85
2008	CLE	94	317	14	66	.309	.946	126
2009	CLE	156	583	20	86	.300	.883	118
2010	CLE	144	550	22	90	.300	.885	122
2011	CLE	85	313	8	36	.259	.733	102
2012	CLE	155	598	16	67	.283	.815	113
2013	CIN	154	569	21	54	.285	.885	124
2014	TEX	123	455	13	40	.242	.714	102
2015	TEX	149	555	22	82	.276	.838	116
2016	TEX	48	178	7	17	.242	.756	102
2017	TEX	149	544	22	78	.261	.780	104
2018	TEX	146	560	21	62	.264	.810	111
2019	TEX	151	563	24	61	.265	.826	109
2020	TEX	33	110	5	15	.236	.723	98
Career		1652	6087	218	782	.275	—	—

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.

1,830 BBE · 2015–2020 · 90.0 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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