Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	STL	11	34	0	4	.265	.648	89
2011	STL	148	326	1	28	.264	.687	95
2012	STL	143	374	4	26	.227	.627	87
2013	STL	123	328	5	43	.238	.656	92
2014	STL	104	161	0	10	.242	.644	92
2015	COL	101	185	5	22	.205	.607	84
2016	COL	99	250	8	38	.264	.773	105
2017	AZ	131	344	10	51	.233	.727	97
2018	AZ	138	349	13	57	.238	.789	108
2019	CHC	82	168	2	15	.173	.521	69
Career		1080	2519	48	294	.235	—	—

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.

941 BBE · 2015–2019 · 87.9 mph avg EV · 5.6% 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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