Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2020	TOR	27	60	0	6	.267	.641	87
2021	TOR	92	222	2	17	.311	.781	107
2022	TOR	135	449	7	51	.267	.692	98
2023	TOR	93	230	2	25	.248	.644	88
2024	CIN	118	357	9	45	.246	.650	91
2025	CIN	114	301	0	16	.243	.575	80
Career		579	1619	20	160	.261	—	—

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.

1,445 BBE · 2020–2026 · 85.2 mph avg EV · 1.9% 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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