Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2006	TEX	120	423	14	55	.286	.801	104
2007	TEX	130	483	20	61	.263	.796	105
2008	TEX	121	518	18	71	.319	.892	119
2009	TEX	144	566	31	86	.253	.814	108
2010	TEX	103	391	9	45	.286	.794	109
2011	TEX	155	620	32	77	.255	.832	116
2012	TEX	157	655	19	72	.256	.749	103
2013	TEX	136	545	13	72	.277	.757	106
2014	DET	161	684	17	92	.275	.727	104
2015	DET	154	624	11	73	.296	.770	107
2016	DET	153	618	28	83	.288	.831	112
2017	DET	139	551	22	52	.236	.725	97
2018	LAA	128	487	14	48	.240	.681	94
2019	SD	87	258	9	22	.217	.646	85
Career		1888	7423	257	909	.269	—	—

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.

2,128 BBE · 2015–2019 · 85.9 mph avg EV · 3.4% 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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