Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	KC	128	523	19	78	.293	.799	111
2012	KC	152	535	14	60	.232	.663	92
2013	KC	159	623	17	79	.302	.801	112
2014	KC	131	503	9	58	.270	.716	102
2015	KC	158	599	18	93	.297	.822	114
2016	KC	158	605	25	104	.266	.761	103
2017	KC	162	603	25	94	.318	.882	118
2018	SD	157	613	18	69	.253	.720	99
2019	SD	160	619	22	99	.265	.735	97
2020	SD	38	143	9	36	.287	.851	115
2021	SD	151	509	12	65	.269	.732	101
2022	SD	104	380	8	44	.268	.716	101
2023	CHC	31	94	2	14	.234	.610	83
Career		1689	6349	198	893	.276	—	—

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.

3,279 BBE · 2015–2023 · 89.9 mph avg EV · 7.1% 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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