Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2007	BOS	33	116	3	18	.353	.902	119
2008	BOS	145	554	9	47	.280	.729	97
2009	BOS	153	624	8	60	.301	.770	103
2010	BOS	18	78	0	5	.192	.485	67
2011	BOS	158	660	32	105	.321	.928	129
2012	BOS	74	303	4	26	.271	.682	94
2013	BOS	134	577	9	53	.298	.781	109
2014	NYY	149	575	16	70	.271	.747	107
2015	NYY	111	452	7	33	.257	.663	92
2016	NYY	148	551	9	56	.263	.703	95
2017	NYY	112	356	7	39	.264	.750	100
Career		1235	4846	104	512	.284	—	—

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.

1,118 BBE · 2015–2017 · 86.4 mph avg EV · 2.4% 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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