Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2014	LAA	79	242	11	37	.256	.739	106
2015	LAA	113	378	16	51	.262	.739	102
2016	LAA	116	407	16	69	.278	.792	107
2017	LAA	100	339	16	56	.248	.741	99
2018	TB	140	501	30	74	.253	.816	112
2019	MIN	125	458	25	78	.253	.780	103
2020	DET	13	42	4	8	.190	.894	121
2021	COL	142	470	28	92	.281	.905	124
2022	COL	150	575	29	102	.257	.783	111
2023	COL	71	258	12	37	.248	.729	99
Career		1049	3670	187	604	.260	—	—

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.

2,573 BBE · 2015–2023 · 88.9 mph avg EV · 11.4% 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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