Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	SD	28	110	2	10	.264	.730	97
2009	SD	95	293	12	38	.256	.763	102
2010	SD	131	392	13	51	.245	.732	101
2011	SD	121	370	9	44	.246	.704	98
2012	SD	148	417	9	45	.264	.765	106
2013	SD	151	481	22	53	.268	.796	111
2014	SD	146	406	8	33	.224	.613	88
2015	SD	135	349	6	33	.244	.669	93
2016	LAD	12	18	0	0	.056	.216	29
Career		967	2836	81	307	.249	—	—

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.

265 BBE · 2015–2016 · 86.1 mph avg EV · 2.3% 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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