Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2014	WSH	17	39	1	5	.205	.638	91
2015	WSH	138	472	14	63	.229	.640	89
2016	WSH	76	221	7	16	.231	.654	88
2017	WSH	118	399	19	53	.271	.806	107
2018	WSH	134	353	6	28	.227	.644	89
2019	WSH	53	88	1	3	.250	.669	88
2020	WSH	38	92	5	16	.196	.676	91
2021	KC	142	483	12	54	.244	.653	90
2022	KC	124	414	9	43	.254	.670	95
2023	MIN	129	355	21	51	.220	.720	98
2024	PIT	113	269	5	21	.193	.543	76
2025	CWS	134	295	9	35	.200	.625	87
Career		1216	3480	109	388	.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.

2,289 BBE · 2015–2025 · 87.2 mph avg EV · 8.8% 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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