Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2007	AZ	43	140	2	11	.221	.647	85
2008	AZ	108	356	15	42	.250	.816	109
2009	AZ	138	526	26	86	.300	.899	120
2010	AZ	133	495	17	69	.273	.799	110
2011	AZ	159	592	31	88	.289	.898	125
2012	AZ	150	554	17	67	.280	.785	108
2013	ATL	149	558	27	70	.263	.818	115
2014	ATL	154	566	29	102	.270	.833	119
2015	SD	150	542	26	81	.251	.790	110
2016	DET	153	570	31	87	.246	.775	105
2017	DET	152	557	35	109	.273	.901	120
2018	LAA	145	533	30	85	.257	.808	111
2019	LAA	63	219	12	40	.215	.724	96
2020	LAA	42	147	9	22	.204	.711	96
2021	LAA	89	318	17	41	.211	.705	97
2022	SEA	17	48	1	3	.125	.471	67
Career		1845	6721	325	1003	.261	—	—

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.

1,998 BBE · 2015–2022 · 90.0 mph avg EV · 12.1% 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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