Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2016	KC	81	311	2	29	.283	.716	97
2017	KC	145	587	19	78	.288	.784	104
2018	KC	158	632	12	60	.304	.806	111
2019	KC	162	681	16	74	.302	.811	107
2020	KC	60	248	9	30	.282	.764	103
2021	KC	162	664	10	74	.277	.711	98
2022	KC	139	504	11	58	.250	.673	95
2023	TOR	145	547	11	67	.272	.700	95
2024	PHI	95	293	4	15	.222	.625	88
Career		1147	4467	94	485	.280	—	—

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.

3,719 BBE · 2016–2024 · 86.3 mph avg EV · 4.0% 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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