Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2006	BOS	20	22	1	2	.227	.755	98
2007	TEX	46	105	2	14	.343	.936	123
2008	TEX	108	415	15	74	.275	.786	105
2009	TEX	128	432	17	57	.269	.785	105
2010	TEX	138	419	12	65	.291	.806	111
2011	TEX	120	404	11	46	.275	.729	101
2012	TEX	147	457	15	61	.304	.859	119
2013	TEX	142	436	13	45	.220	.656	92
2014	CLE	129	416	8	58	.262	.703	100
2015	CLE	132	361	10	50	.283	.739	102
Career		1110	3467	104	472	.274	—	—

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.

310 BBE · 2015–2015 · 88.3 mph avg EV · 3.2% 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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