Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2009	SEA	46	122	0	4	.221	.537	72
2010	SEA	100	289	10	33	.211	.662	91
2011	SEA	58	161	2	8	.149	.424	59
2012	SEA	139	507	19	57	.247	.738	102
2013	SEA	132	406	12	46	.236	.720	101
2014	SEA	78	231	8	34	.273	.791	113
2015	TOR	9	31	0	3	.194	.499	69
2016	TOR	140	490	24	57	.253	.815	110
2017	PHI	73	218	6	21	.202	.600	80
Career		775	2455	81	263	.232	—	—

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.

512 BBE · 2015–2017 · 88.5 mph avg EV · 7.4% 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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