Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2006	TB	30	126	3	10	.317	.812	106
2007	TB	162	645	13	93	.288	.723	95
2008	MIN	152	575	10	69	.290	.741	99
2009	MIN	108	395	12	60	.284	.733	98
2010	MIN	153	570	21	112	.298	.826	113
2011	MIN	124	473	12	64	.268	.695	97
2012	DET	151	574	18	74	.267	.707	98
2013	PHI	103	334	11	38	.260	.715	100
2014	BAL	83	242	7	30	.302	.779	111
2015	BAL	52	174	2	16	.270	.628	87
Career		1118	4108	109	566	.283	—	—

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.

142 BBE · 2015–2015 · 88.1 mph avg EV · 2.1% 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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