Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2012	ATH	60	209	7	34	.201	.625	86
2013	ATH	98	264	9	30	.246	.754	106
2014	ATH	127	385	10	55	.270	.763	109
2015	SD	147	515	14	62	.250	.709	98
2016	SD	125	415	14	42	.186	.583	79
2017	TB	53	179	9	24	.201	.637	85
Career		610	1967	63	247	.230	—	—

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.

790 BBE · 2015–2017 · 87.3 mph avg EV · 3.9% 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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