Brewers officially re-sign Yelich through 2028 season

By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher

The Milwaukee Brewers have officially re-signed outfielder Christian Yelich. He has signed a seven-year, $188.5 million deal.

This contract extension will kick in following the 2021 season. He is slated to make $12.5 million in 2020.

Christian Yelich reacts during a spring training workout (Photo by the Associated Press/Gregory Bull)

“He definitely deserves it,” Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain said to the Associated Press. “The guy’s definitely the best player on our team. He rakes. Like I said, he got a deserving contract for sure.”

His old deal also has a $14 million salary for the 2021 season. This new deal will now run through the 2028 season after beginning with the 2022 season.

At the tail end of this deal, he will have a $20 million mutual option for the 2029 season. If the Brewers — or another team if he is traded — elects not to pick up this option, he will receive $6.5 million in a buyout.

The deal will be worth $228.5 million if the 2029 option is exercised. Plus, this means that Yelich will play nearly the rest of his career with the Brewers barring a trade.

The deal will through his age-36 season. It’ll be his age-37 season should his option be exercised.

This is the largest deal for a player in Brewers history. Yelich has proven to be an MVP candidate when he has been healthy.

The 28-year-old Thousand Oaks, California native has spent the last two seasons with the Brewers. In his first season with the team in 2018, he won the MVP.

Yelich missed the latter part of the season following an injury. This caused him to finish second behind Los Angeles Dodgers star Corey Bellinger, who won the award in 2019.

Yelich had a .329 batting average with 44 home runs and 97 RBIs in 130 games. He also had 29 doubles and three triples on 161 hits in 489 at-bats, while also scoring 100 runs.

“Christian in his first two years here, you know he has done incredible things,” manager Craig Counsell said, “and I think he’s taken this challenge, and took a trade that was probably to a place that he wasn’t sure about at the outset of it and made the best of it and found a place that he really likes to play.”

In his seven-year career, he has a .301 batting average with 139 home runs and 500 RBIs in 920 games. He also has 209 doubles and 24 triples on 1,067 hits, while scoring 587 runs, in 3,541 at-bats.

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Brewers lose Yelich for rest of 2019 with fractured kneecap

By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher

Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich has suffered a fractured right kneecap. He will miss the rest of the 2019 season.

Yelich was injured on Tuesday against the Miami Marlins. This is a tough blow for the reigning National League MVP, who was a consider for the award once again before his injury.

Christian Yelich celebrates after hitting a solo home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 National League Championship Series (Getty Images)

He suffered the injury in his first at-bat at Marlins Park. He fouled the ball off of a pitch by pitcher Elieser Hernández right off of his right knee.

With Yelich out of the lineup for the foreseeable future, the team is expected to turn to Trent Grisham to try to fill the role. Yelich was the Brewers best player, who they will try to make the playoffs without him.

The 27-year-old Thousand Oaks, California native has spent the last two seasons with the Brewers. He was acquired on January 25, 2018 in a trade with the Marlins that sent Monte Harrison, Lewis Brinson, Isan Diaz, and Jordan Yamamoto to South Beach.

This season, he had a .330 batting average with 44 home runs and 97 RBIs in 129 games. He also had 29 doubles and three triples on 161 hits, while scoring 100 runs, in 488 at-bats.

The 44 home runs were a career-high. His previous best was 36, which he had in 2018 during his MVP season, when he also had a career-best 110 RBIs.

For the second straight year, Yelich has made the All-Star team with the Brewers. He is also a two-time Silver Slugger, who has one Golden Glove and one batting title.

Yelich leaves game with oblique injury vs. Cardinals

By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher

Christian Yelich, who hit a game-tying home run on Tuesday night against the St. Louis Cardinals, left Wednesday’s game with the Cardinals with a right oblique injury. He admitted after the game when he was interviewed by reporters that he was not sure when he got injured.

He left the contest in the seventh inning. He was replaced by Hernán Pérez.

Christian Yelich sliding into the bottom frame of the Miller Park outfield (Getty Images)

Since the start of the season, Yelich has been hitting the ball very well. But likely with this injury, he’ll have to miss some time moving forward.

“No, it was nothing from that,” Yelich said of the play when he slid into the bottom frame of the outfield wall in the sixth inning. “It’s just a little tightness, soreness.”

Yelich, who was acquired in the off-season in a trade with the Miami Marlins, will be re-evaluated on Thursday. Right now little is known until that evaluation.

“No,” Yelich said if it’s been bothering him for a while. “Just a precautionary thing, make sure it doesn’t turn into something bigger.”

The 26-year-old has had .435 batting average in five games. He also had one home run and five RBI’s with ten hits.

Before he left on Wednesday, he was 0-for-3 with a strikeout. His was the second game of the young season, where he did not register a hit, which he also did not do on April 2nd against the Cardinals.

The Brewers continue their home stand on Thursday against the Chicago Cubs. He could potentially miss this series.