Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2007	KC	151	543	15	60	.247	.725	96
2008	KC	134	493	16	59	.260	.783	104
2009	KC	49	164	6	22	.232	.703	94
2010	KC	74	242	8	20	.215	.671	92
2011	KC	151	611	23	87	.303	.879	122
2012	KC	161	642	14	72	.294	.822	113
2013	KC	156	633	20	81	.265	.749	105
2014	KC	156	563	19	74	.266	.783	112
2015	KC	104	354	13	48	.271	.809	112
2016	KC	128	445	17	40	.220	.692	94
2017	KC	148	476	9	45	.208	.608	81
2018	KC	141	506	13	54	.245	.694	95
2019	KC	150	556	13	76	.266	.741	98
2020	KC	50	163	4	11	.209	.606	82
Career		1753	6391	190	749	.257	—	—

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.

1,867 BBE · 2015–2020 · 87.5 mph avg EV · 5.9% 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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