Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2005	CIN	18	38	1	2	.263	.785	105
2006	CIN	49	106	1	7	.283	.724	94
2008	ATH	29	62	1	9	.290	.749	100
2009	ATH	4	2	0	1	.000	.000	0
2010	SD	99	284	9	36	.271	.769	106
2011	SD	111	307	5	19	.277	.718	100
2012	SD	130	348	8	36	.293	.796	110
2013	SD	144	473	10	47	.279	.732	103
2014	SD	121	330	3	21	.230	.602	86
2015	CHC	103	212	3	18	.269	.691	96
Career		808	2162	41	196	.272	—	—

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.

157 BBE · 2015–2015 · 87.7 mph avg EV · 3.8% 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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