Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2008	SEA	18	49	0	1	.245	.662	88
2009	CLE	103	368	10	31	.250	.714	95
2010	CLE	91	275	2	24	.193	.531	73
2011	CLE	17	43	1	1	.209	.506	70
2012	CHC	90	265	4	28	.219	.650	90
2013	CHC	108	331	12	37	.218	.708	99
2014	CHC	149	478	16	51	.249	.776	111
2015	HOU	132	434	25	56	.224	.748	104
2016	HOU	90	292	13	40	.260	.816	110
2017	LAA	117	347	22	65	.199	.727	97
2018	LAA	96	266	9	33	.199	.588	81
Career		1011	3148	114	367	.226	—	—

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.

944 BBE · 2015–2018 · 88.3 mph avg EV · 9.4% 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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