Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2012	LAD	27	54	2	7	.167	.511	71
2013	LAD	53	129	7	19	.240	.807	113
2014	LAD	98	212	11	29	.297	.910	130
2015	LAD	96	222	6	30	.239	.700	97
2016	LAD	52	102	1	7	.225	.606	82
2017	LAD	29	41	2	3	.122	.543	72
Career		355	760	29	95	.242	—	—

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.

265 BBE · 2015–2017 · 87.4 mph avg EV · 7.2% 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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