Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2016	SEA	33	48	1	5	.188	.569	77
2017	SEA	134	509	11	59	.275	.735	98
2018	SEA	101	257	1	19	.272	.728	100
2019	MIL	134	311	7	33	.248	.710	94
2020	MIL	40	114	3	10	.237	.718	97
2021	PIT	122	340	8	26	.247	.735	101
2022	PIT	115	371	9	46	.232	.693	98
2023	SD	6	15	0	2	.200	.467	64
2024	HOU	38	81	1	4	.247	.717	101
Career		723	2046	41	204	.252	—	—

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.

1,480 BBE · 2016–2024 · 87.7 mph avg EV · 5.3% 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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