Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2010	CHC	125	463	3	41	.300	.755	104
2011	CHC	158	674	10	66	.307	.773	107
2012	CHC	162	646	14	78	.283	.753	104
2013	CHC	161	666	10	44	.245	.631	88
2014	CHC	134	528	14	65	.292	.777	111
2015	CHC	151	547	11	69	.265	.671	93
2016	NYY	151	577	21	70	.270	.734	99
2017	NYY	112	443	16	63	.300	.792	106
2018	MIA	154	593	12	54	.278	.729	100
2019	MIA	162	636	22	86	.270	.736	97
2020	WSH	16	60	2	4	.267	.752	102
2021	WSH	87	315	3	38	.283	.708	97
Career		1573	6148	138	678	.280	—	—

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.

2,576 BBE · 2015–2021 · 87.9 mph avg EV · 5.6% 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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