Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2017	SF	34	117	3	16	.282	.740	99
2018	SF	74	199	1	23	.251	.640	88
2019	SF	68	168	5	21	.238	.750	99
2020	SF	31	85	5	7	.282	.914	124
2021	SF	129	274	12	32	.241	.744	102
2022	SF	125	277	7	34	.264	.774	110
2023	SF	89	185	5	20	.270	.748	102
2024	SF	84	177	2	18	.209	.586	82
2025	CWS	65	148	5	13	.216	.642	89
Career		699	1630	45	184	.248	—	—

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.

1,147 BBE · 2017–2026 · 88.0 mph avg EV · 8.5% 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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