Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2005	NYY	6	19	0	0	.211	.421	56
2006	NYY	130	460	7	50	.280	.752	98
2007	NYY	150	545	8	73	.273	.718	95
2008	NYY	129	414	8	37	.249	.641	86
2009	NYY	154	485	13	68	.274	.752	100
2010	ATL	147	458	4	42	.255	.671	92
2011	KC	155	658	18	87	.305	.809	112
2012	SF	113	459	11	60	.346	.906	125
2013	TOR	88	344	3	30	.279	.682	96
2014	TOR	139	568	16	73	.301	.808	115
2015	CWS	158	629	12	77	.273	.709	98
2016	CWS	151	591	14	86	.296	.800	108
2017	CWS	156	620	17	85	.285	.746	99
2018	CLE	78	250	6	39	.280	.755	104
2019	PIT	133	378	7	47	.280	.713	94
Career		1887	6878	144	854	.285	—	—

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.

2,159 BBE · 2015–2019 · 89.0 mph avg EV · 2.6% 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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