Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	CIN	108	413	21	52	.254	.767	102
2009	CIN	101	345	22	58	.223	.773	103
2010	CIN	148	509	25	70	.281	.846	116
2011	CIN	157	585	32	97	.256	.814	113
2012	CIN	155	560	34	99	.252	.841	116
2013	CIN	160	626	30	109	.262	.807	113
2014	CIN	137	493	18	66	.217	.654	93
2015	CIN	157	580	26	87	.226	.729	101
2016	CIN	147	539	33	99	.250	.815	110
2017	NYM	146	555	36	101	.254	.832	111
2018	NYM	94	319	9	37	.223	.680	93
2019	SEA	98	310	26	59	.216	.784	103
2020	PHI	32	96	6	14	.198	.721	97
2021	NYY	10	34	1	3	.118	.466	64
Career		1650	5964	319	951	.244	—	—

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.

1,816 BBE · 2015–2021 · 88.9 mph avg EV · 9.6% 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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