Christian Yelich
Yelich's career tells two distinct stories: the Milwaukee superstar who nearly repeated as MVP in 2019, and the player who's spent the last six seasons trying to recapture that magic. His 2019 campaign was a marvel — that .329 average and 44 homers represented a peak that made him briefly look like the game's best all-around hitter.
The decline since has been stark but not catastrophic. That career 115 OPS+ still marks him as a consistently above-average hitter, even as his power numbers dropped significantly after 2020. At 35, he's settling into the veteran phase where his Gold Glove defense and veteran savvy matter as much as his bat.
The fascinating question is whether there's one more surge left in the tank. His 2019 season proved he has elite ceiling when everything clicks — the challenge is finding that gear again after years of good-but-not-great production.
| Date | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .244 |
| Jul 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .243 |
| Jul 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .243 |
| Jul 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .243 |
| Jul 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .242 |
| Jul 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .242 |
| Jul 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .247 |
| Jul 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .241 |
| Jul 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .239 |
| Jul 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .243 |
Career · Batting
14 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | — | 62 | 240 | 4 | 16 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | — | 144 | 582 | 9 | 54 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | — | 126 | 476 | 7 | 44 | — | — | — |
| 2016 | — | 155 | 578 | 21 | 98 | — | — | — |
| 2017 | — | 156 | 602 | 18 | 81 | — | — | — |
| 2018 | — | 147 | 574 | 36 | 110 | — | 1.000 | — |
| 2019 | — | 130 | 489 | 44 | 97 | — | 1.100 | — |
| 2020 | — | 58 | 200 | 12 | 22 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | 117 | 399 | 9 | 51 | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | 154 | 575 | 14 | 57 | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | 144 | 550 | 19 | 76 | — | — | — |
| 2024 | — | 73 | 270 | 11 | 42 | — | — | — |
| 2025 | — | 150 | 573 | 29 | 103 | — | — | — |
| 2026 | — | 65 | 253 | 6 | 33 | — | — | — |
| Career | 1681 | 6361 | 239 | 884 | — | — | — | |
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.
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.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.