Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	WSH	21	82	4	12	.280	.879	117
2010	WSH	154	525	10	65	.269	.700	96
2011	WSH	154	584	8	49	.253	.656	91
2012	WSH	130	513	25	73	.292	.845	117
2013	WSH	158	600	20	80	.280	.784	110
2014	WSH	154	593	24	91	.255	.743	106
2015	WSH	156	583	19	62	.233	.674	93
2016	TEX	156	625	22	86	.285	.782	106
2017	COL	95	339	7	40	.274	.701	93
2018	COL	160	555	22	88	.236	.729	100
2019	COL	140	443	20	65	.255	.788	104
Career		1478	5442	181	711	.263	—	—

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.

1,850 BBE · 2015–2019 · 90.1 mph avg EV · 7.2% 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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