Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	PIT	95	347	16	64	.256	.788	108
2011	PIT	74	235	4	19	.191	.561	78
2012	PIT	149	525	30	85	.244	.784	108
2013	PIT	152	558	36	100	.233	.770	108
2014	PIT	122	398	18	56	.231	.717	102
2015	PIT	150	437	27	77	.243	.787	109
2016	BAL	109	337	22	49	.249	.826	112
2017	BAL	14	32	1	4	.313	.790	105
2018	BAL	45	111	8	18	.180	.698	96
Career		910	2980	162	472	.236	—	—

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.

643 BBE · 2015–2018 · 92.0 mph avg EV · 12.8% 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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