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Christian Yelich
Christian Yelich
	Yelich with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2024
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	Left fielder
	Born: December 5, 1991 (age 32); Thousand Oaks, California, U.S.
	Bats: Left Throws: Right
MLB debut
	July 23, 2013, for the Miami Marlins
MLB statistics ; (through 2024 season)
Batting average	.287
Hits	1,590
Home runs	204
Runs batted in	748
Stolen bases	205
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	Miami Marlins (2013–2017); Milwaukee Brewers (2018–present);
Career highlights and awards
	3× All-Star (2018, 2019, 2024); NL MVP (2018); All-MLB First Team (2019); Gold Glove Award (2014); 3× Silver Slugger Award (2016, 2018, 2019); 2× NL Hank Aaron Award (2018, 2019); 2× NL batting champion (2018, 2019); All-World Baseball Classic Team (2017);
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Representing United States
World Baseball Classic

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Christian Stephen Yelich (born December 5, 1991) is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins.

The Marlins selected Yelich in the first round of the 2010 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut for the Marlins in 2013 and was traded to the Brewers in the 2017–18 offseason. Yelich is a three-time MLB All-Star, a three-time Silver Slugger Award winner, a two-time National League batting champion, a Gold Glove Award recipient in 2014, and the winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in 2018.

Career

Amateur career

Yelich was born in Thousand Oaks, California, and attended Westlake High School.^[1] During his freshman year, he batted .373 with 25 hits and 16 strikeouts in 67 at-bats.^[2] In his sophomore year, he batted .341 with 31 hits and 24 strikeouts in 91 at-bats.^[3] During Yelich's junior year, he batted .489 with 46 hits and struck out six times.^[4] In his senior year, he batted .451 with 37 hits, nine strikeouts and nine home runs in 82 at-bats.^[5] He was named Second Team All-American by Max Preps and was ranked 34 among the top 100 players in the nation in high school.^[6]

Yelich accepted a scholarship to play college baseball for the Miami Hurricanes baseball team.^[7]

Professional career

Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins selected Yelich in the first round, with the 23rd overall selection, in the 2010 MLB draft. Yelich and the Marlins agreed to a $1.7 million signing bonus on August 17, shortly before the deadline to sign 2010 draftees was about to pass.^[8]^[9] Yelich played for the Gulf Coast League Marlins for six games, getting nine hits and seven strikeouts with a batting average of .375 before being advanced to Class-A. He played in six games for the Greensboro Grasshoppers in 2010, batting .348. In 2011, he batted .261 with 43 hits, six strikeouts, and four home runs. Yelich was named the Marlins' Minor League Player of the Year in both 2011 and 2012.^[10]^[11]

On July 23, 2013, the Marlins promoted Yelich to MLB from the Double-A Jacksonville Suns.^[12]^[13]

In the 2014 season, Yelich batted .284 with 21 steals out of the leadoff spot for the Miami Marlins.^[14] He also won a Gold Glove Award in left field, becoming the franchise's youngest ever player and first outfielder to win the award.^[15]^[16]^[17] During the season, Yelich set a franchise record for fielding percentage in left field, at .996.^[18] He served as the final out of Jordan Zimmermann's no-hitter on September 28, 2014, when Steven Souza Jr. made a diving play to save the no-hitter.

Yelich and the Marlins finalized a seven-year, $49.57 million contract extension on March 22, 2015.^[19] He struggled to start the season, and was placed on the disabled list in April with lower back strain before making his return on May 8.^[20]^[21] His batting average reached a season low of .178 on May 22.^[22] In August, Yelich bruised his right knee and was again placed on the disabled list.^[23] Yelich had improved from his earlier offensive struggles and was hitting .275/.343/.376 with six home runs, 29 RBIs and 14 stolen bases up to that point in the season.^[24]^[25] Despite aggravating the injury shortly after his return, Yelich remained an active player for the quality of his bat.^[26]^[27] Near the end of the season, Yelich shared the field with Marcell Ozuna, the outfielder who had replaced him during his second stint on the disabled list.^[28] Yelich closed the 2015 season with a .300 average.^[22] For the season, he had the highest ground ball percentage (62.5%), and the lowest fly ball percentage (15.0%), of all major league hitters.^[29]

Yelich was projected to bat third to start 2016.^[30] He hit well in that spot, and managed to increase his power output.^[31]^[32] On April 23, in a game against the San Francisco Giants, Yelich hit three doubles, which tied a franchise record.^[33] Defensively, Yelich was a starting outfielder, alongside Ozuna and Giancarlo Stanton.^[34] In late May, Yelich missed some time due to back spasms.^[35]^[36] After Stanton was placed on the disabled list, Ozuna played Stanton's usual position in right field, while Yelich took Ozuna's spot in center on days that backup outfielder Ichiro Suzuki was unavailable.^[37]

Milwaukee Brewers

On January 25, 2018, the Marlins traded Yelich to the Milwaukee Brewers for Lewis Brinson, Isan Díaz, Monte Harrison, and Jordan Yamamoto.^[38] Yelich was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game after batting .285 with 11 home runs, 36 RBIs, and 11 stolen bases.^[39] Yelich, a reserve for the National League, replaced Matt Kemp in left field and went 1-for-3, hitting a solo home run in an 8–6 extra-inning loss to the American League. On August 29, Yelich hit for the cycle against the Cincinnati Reds, collecting a total of six hits in the game.^[40] On September 2, Yelich hit his first career grand slam, in a game against the Washington Nationals.^[41] On September 17, Yelich hit for the cycle, also against the Cincinnati Reds, for the second time in 19 days, becoming the fifth player in MLB history to hit two cycles in the same season and the first player in MLB history to do so against the same team.^[42]

Yelich finished the 2018 season with a .326/.402/.598 slash line, 36 homers, and 110 RBIs, winning the first NL batting title in Brewers history, while narrowly falling short of a triple crown.^[43]^[44] He also was second in the league in power-speed number (27.3).^[45] On October 26, Yelich was announced as the National League recipient of the annual Hank Aaron Award.^[46] On November 16, Yelich was named Most Valuable Player of the National League, falling one vote shy of a unanimous selection.^[47]

On March 31, 2019, Yelich became the sixth player in MLB history to hit a home run in each of his team's first four games.^[48]

On July 1, 2019, Yelich became the first player in Brewers franchise history to reach 30 home runs before the All-Star Break, beating former Brewer Prince Fielder's record of 29 home runs.^[49] Yelich was selected to participate in the Home Run Derby but had to withdraw due to a back injury. He was replaced by Matt Chapman in the Home Run Derby. On September 10, 2019, Yelich hit a foul ball off his kneecap and left the game.^[50] Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that his right kneecap was fractured, which prematurely ended his 2019 season.

In 2019, Yelich won his second National League batting title. He batted .329/.429 (leading the NL)/.671 (leading the major leagues) with a 1.100 OPS (leading the majors), 44 home runs (4th in the NL), 11.1 at-bats per home runs (leading the league), a .342 ISO (leading the NL), 30 stolen bases (3rd), a 93.75 stolen base percentage (3rd), and 97 RBIs in 130 games.^[51]^[52] He had the highest Hard Contact Percentage of all National League batters, at 50.8%.^[53] Yelich was the first National League player to lead the league in batting average and slugging percentage in consecutive seasons since Rogers Hornsby, who did so from 1920 to 1925. He won the NL Hank Aaron Award for the second year in a row^[54] and finished second in NL MVP voting.^[55]

After the 2019 season, Yelich became the only player in Major League Baseball history to have consecutive seasons hitting .325 or higher with 35 or more homers and 20 or more steals.

On March 6, 2020, Yelich signed a nine-year, $215 million contract extension with the Brewers, more than doubling Ryan Braun's previous record of $105 million for the richest contract in franchise history.^[56] In the shortened 60-game 2020 season, he hit .205/.356/.430 with 12 home runs.

At the start of the 2021 season, Yelich had a lingering back problem that caused him to spend over half of April and within the first few weeks of May on the injured list.

Yelich hit his third career cycle on May 11, 2022, becoming the sixth player in MLB history to do so, and the first player to accomplish three cycles against the same team, the Cincinnati Reds.^[57]

In 2022, he had the highest ground ball percentage of all major leaguers (58.6%), and the lowest fly ball percentage (23.0%), and batted .252/.355/.383.^[58]

In the 2024 season, Yelich's season stats as of early July had nearly matched the weighted runs created plus (wRC+) he achieved in his MVP and near-MVP seasons of 2018 and 2019.^[59] However, he was placed on the injured list with a back issue on July 24.^[60] Despite Yelich's attempt to put off a back surgery until after the season,^[61] he and the team announced on August 15 that he would be entering surgery the next day with the hope of returning in 2025.^[62]^[63] On September 8, the team officially ended Yelich's season by transferring him to the 60-day injured list.^[64]

International career

Yelich played for the United States national baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Following the conclusion of the tournament, he was named to the All-World Baseball Classic team.^[65]

On September 10, 2018, he was selected to play with the MLB All-Stars at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series,^[66] but he later withdrew from the event.^[67]

Personal life

Yelich is the eldest child of Stephen and Alecia Yelich, and the great-grandson of American football player Fred Gehrke, who played for the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers.^[68]^[1] His uncle, Chris Yelich, played for the UCLA Bruins.^[69] He has two brothers: Collin, who played minor league baseball in the Braves organization, and Cameron, who is a member of the United States Marine Corps.^[70]^[71]^[72]

Yelich's paternal great-grandfather was a Serb from Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[73] Christian Yelich was baptized in the Serbian Orthodox Church as Risto Šćepan Jelić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ристо Шћепан Јелић).^[74] His maternal grandfather was Japanese.^[75]

Yelich appeared (as himself) in an episode of Magnum P.I. that aired on March 4, 2019. His scene was with the 2018 Honolulu Little League World Champions in which he homers off a pitch from series protagonist Orville "Rick" Wright (played by Zachary Knighton).^[76] Yelich once invited Cleveland Browns quarterback and 2017 Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield to Brewers batting practice.^[77]

Yelich grew up both a Los Angeles Dodgers fan and a New York Yankees fan.^[78]^[79]

Yelich owns property in Malibu, California.^[80] In October 2021, he purchased a $6.5 million home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, from NHL player Oliver Ekman-Larsson.^[81]

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External links

Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
Christian Yelich on Twitter
christianyelich on Instagram

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Mookie Betts Self Eddie Rosario	Hitting for the cycle August 29, 2018 September 17, 2018 May 11, 2022	Succeeded by Self Charlie Blackmon Eduardo Escobar
Preceded by Cody Bellinger	National League Player of the Month September 2018	Succeeded by Justin Turner

[pbp-1] Capozzi, Joe (February 9, 2013). "Miami Marlins outfield prospect Christian Yelich on path to majors". Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[2] "Christian Yelich Freshman Stats". MaxPreps. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

[3] "Christian Yelich Sophomore Stats". MaxPreps. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

[4] "Christian Yelich Junior Stats". MaxPreps. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

[5] "Christian Yelich Senior Stats". MaxPreps. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2011.

[6] "Baseball Recruiting: 2010 Top 100". MaxPreps. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.

[7] Millian, Jorge (August 21, 2010). "Top pick Christian Yelich picked Marlins over UM". Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[8] Rodriguez, Juan C. (August 17, 2010). "Marlins, first-rounder Yelich agree just before deadline". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[9] "Marlins sign Yelich for $1.7 million bonus". USA Today. Associated Press. August 17, 2010. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[10] Duarte, Shaunte (March 30, 2012). "Marlins Top Prospects: #1 Christian Yelich". MILB.com. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[11] Rodriguez, Juan C. (September 29, 2012). "Marlins recognize top minor leaguers Yelich, Fernandez". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[12] Spencer, Clark (July 24, 2013). "Christian Yelich and Jake Marisnick called up to join the Marlins". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.

[13] "Marlins call up two outfield prospects". ESPN.com. Associated Press. July 23, 2013. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.

[14] Fialkov, Harvey (July 3, 2015). "Christian Yelich returning to form". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[15] De Nicola, Christina (November 4, 2014). "Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich wins NL Gold Glove". Fox Sports. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[16] Navarro, Manny (November 4, 2014). "Miami Marlins outfielder Christian Yelich wins Gold Glove". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[17] Frisaro, Joe (November 4, 2014). "Yelich first Marlins outfielder to win Gold Glove". MLB.com. Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[18] Davis, Craig (November 3, 2014). "Marlins' Christian Yelich wins first Gold Glove". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[19] Frisaro, Joe (March 22, 2015). "Marlins lock up Yelich with seven-year pact". MLB.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.

[20] Navarro, Manny (April 24, 2015). "Miami Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich placed on disabled list". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

[21] "Marlins activate LF Christian Yelich off DL; Reid Brignac sent down". Sun Sentinel. May 8, 2015. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

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v t e 2019 All-MLB Team
1st Team	C: Realmuto 1B: Alonso 2B: LeMahieu 3B: Rendon SS: Bogaerts OF: Bellinger Trout Yelich DH: Cruz SP: Cole deGrom Scherzer Strasburg Verlander RP: Hader Yates
2nd Team	C: Grandal 1B: Freeman 2B: Altuve 3B:Bregman SS: Semien OF: Acuña Jr. Betts Soto DH: Alvarez SP: Flaherty Greinke Morton Ryu Soroka RP: Chapman Hendriks

v t e 30–30 club, 40–40 club and 50–50 club
30–30 club (HR-SB)	H. Aaron Abreu Acuña Jr. Bagwell Beltrán Betts Bichette Ba. Bonds Bo. Bonds Braun Burks Canseco Carter Cruz Jr. Davis Ellsbury Gant Green Guerrero Harper Johnson Kemp Kinsler Larkin Lindor Mays Mondesí Mullins Murphy Ohtani Phillips H. Ramírez J. Ramírez Rollins A. Rodriguez J. Rodriguez Sizemore Soriano Sosa Strawberry Trout Walker Ken Williams P. Wilson Witt Jr Wright Yelich
40–40 club (HR-SB)	Acuña Jr. Ba. Bonds Canseco Ohtani Rodriguez Soriano
50–50 club (HR-SB)	Ohtani

v t e 2017 World Baseball Classic All WBC Team
Catcher	Yadier Molina
Infielders	Eric Hosmer (1B) Javier Báez (2B) Francisco Lindor (SS) Carlos Correa (3B)
Outfielders	Wladimir Balentien Gregory Polanco Christian Yelich
Designated hitter	Carlos Beltrán
Pitchers	Kodai Senga Marcus Stroman Josh Zeid