Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2019	CLE	115	438	15	54	.269	.761	100
2020	CLE	36	86	1	6	.128	.348	47
2021	CLE	72	214	6	19	.224	.669	92
2022	CLE	55	121	4	16	.207	.614	87
2023	STL	20	31	0	5	.290	.700	95
Career		298	890	26	100	.237	—	—

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.

709 BBE · 2019–2023 · 86.8 mph avg EV · 4.1% 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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