Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	TOR	43	150	9	25	.293	.953	132
2012	TOR	125	494	11	48	.273	.729	101
2013	TOR	107	401	11	46	.254	.712	100
2014	TOR	70	259	12	38	.247	.722	103
2015	ATH	149	562	16	60	.260	.706	98
2016	CWS	94	351	12	36	.248	.723	98
Career		588	2217	71	253	.261	—	—

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.

655 BBE · 2015–2016 · 89.4 mph avg EV · 5.5% 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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