Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2011	CLE	36	136	7	19	.272	.841	117
2012	CLE	152	591	14	76	.257	.714	99
2013	CLE	149	564	17	84	.284	.818	115
2014	CLE	129	500	6	41	.240	.640	91
2015	CLE	141	565	9	52	.303	.823	114
2016	CLE	156	610	23	82	.275	.811	110
2017	CLE	90	336	12	35	.232	.705	94
2018	CLE	147	530	18	75	.230	.704	97
2019	CLE	121	458	17	65	.245	.715	94
2020	CHC	44	114	3	16	.237	.744	101
Career		1165	4404	126	545	.260	—	—

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.

2,038 BBE · 2015–2020 · 87.9 mph avg EV · 5.6% 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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