Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2015	MIN	3	7	0	0	.143	.286	40
2016	MIN	113	396	17	63	.235	.734	99
2017	MIN	147	511	19	69	.243	.737	98
2018	MIN	156	532	20	58	.224	.727	100
2019	MIN	134	524	36	90	.252	.855	113
2020	MIN	48	171	9	23	.228	.760	103
2021	MIN	121	426	19	54	.211	.719	99
2022	MIN	115	388	9	43	.227	.666	94
2023	MIN	130	438	24	66	.260	.816	111
2024	MIN	105	368	8	42	.253	.682	96
2025	PHI	127	417	18	52	.216	.691	96
Career		1199	4178	179	560	.235	—	—

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.

3,337 BBE · 2015–2026 · 89.7 mph avg EV · 7.9% 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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