Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2012	BOS	75	267	15	54	.288	.835	115
2013	BOS	94	348	17	49	.227	.696	97
2014	BOS	63	215	2	19	.191	.522	75
2015	SD	83	255	9	29	.212	.602	83
2016	MIL	10	27	0	1	.111	.337	46
2017	TEX	22	38	0	3	.211	.599	80
Career		347	1150	43	155	.228	—	—

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.

230 BBE · 2015–2017 · 88.7 mph avg EV · 7.8% 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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