Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2014	WSH	21	23	2	2	.130	.622	89
2015	TB	110	373	16	40	.225	.717	99
2016	TB	120	430	17	49	.247	.713	96
2017	TB	148	523	30	78	.239	.810	108
2018	AZ	72	241	5	29	.220	.678	93
2020	CHC	11	27	1	5	.148	.591	80
2021	LAD	17	33	1	3	.152	.556	76
2022	SEA	6	19	0	1	.158	.316	45
Career		505	1669	72	207	.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.

1,042 BBE · 2015–2022 · 88.9 mph avg EV · 10.2% 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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