It’s time for Christian Yelich to have a repeat season like 2025, or even better, for the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Brewers’ left fielder hit 29 home runs and totaled 103 RBIs in helping the team reach 97 regular-season victories and reach the National League Championship Series in 2025.
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For the Brewers to even be close to that type of finish this season, Yelich needs to have another big season.
In 2025, Yelich put up a slash line of .264/.343/.795. Compare that with his career slash line of .285/.374/.838 in regular-season play. He was pretty much on point with his career numbers last season.
Yelich, who is from Thousand Oaks, Calif., was a first-round draft pick (No. 23 overall) by the then-Florida (now Miami) Marlins back in the 2010 MLB Draft. He played his first six MLB seasons with the Marlins before coming to Milwaukee in 2018.
Back in 2019, Yelich hit a career-high 44 home runs for the Brewers after hitting 36 homers in the 2018 MLB season. In 2019, he also posted a .329 batting average, which still stands as his career high in that number.
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In 2024, Yelich spent time on the 60-day Injured List with low back inflammation. He was pretty healthy last season, which was a good sign for Milwaukee.
When Brewers manager Pat Murphy makes out his lineup cards throughout this season, he probably knows that Yelich is a shoo-in to start consistently in his outfield.
Hopefully, Yelich also can provide some defensive depth there, too.
It’s awfully hard for some ballclubs to match what they did in a previous season to the next one. Murphy knows better than anyone that he needs a full complement of healthy players all season long.
Yelich, whose nickname is “Yeli,” went to high school at Westlake in Westlake Village, Calif. He also received a number of awards when he was coming up through the Marlins’ minor-league system.
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So, he’d already put a stamp on his major-league future by performing at a high level in the minor leagues.
Yelich is one of those team leaders that needs to perform consistently all season long. The Brewers need Yelich to come into Spring Training, get his work in, and be all ready to go for Opening Day.
Should Yelich have a hiccup along the way, then Murphy will have to look at who could step in and play left field.
Personally, I think Yelich will have a stellar season. He knows that his efforts at the plate and in the field mean a lot to the ballclub.
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