MLB · DH · Milwaukee Brewers
Christian Yelich
B/T L/R · 6' 4" · 220 lb · born Thousand Oaks, CA, USA · age 34 · draft 2010 rd 1 · played DH 112, LF 2 · MLB debut 2013-07-23
500 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
1,100 career runs scored — Tue, Sep 22 · night game vs. Philadelphia Phillies The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipChristian Yelich #US290 · 2013 Topps Update · 665 recent sales 7N ▲30.4%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
A Thousand Oaks kid taken in the first round in 2010, Yelich is a .282 career hitter with 245 home runs across 1,734 games. His last two weeks at the MLB level went cold, though — a .158 average with nine strikeouts in six games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Yelich here — The Overnight: 1,100 career runs scored (September 22, 2026)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95106.052
- Deserved (xVal)0.39969
- Got (aVal)0.37661
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01767
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $23.95M
- Tax hit
- $23.37M
- Service time
- 13 yr 69 d
- Guaranteed
- $215M
The deal 9 years $215M (2020–2028), with an opt-out — $23.9M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 9 y/$215M (20-28)+29 m opt* · agent Paragon Spts · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $23.9M | $5.4M |
| Tax hit | $23.4M | Option |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Milwaukee Brewers.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $21.6M
- Guaranteed
- $215.0M
- Term
- 9 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $26.0M | $26.0M | $26.0M | $20.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
The Wire
△ On the field: Five Brewers posted multi-hit games in NLCS Game 2, led by Contreras with three hits.
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The Bureau on Christian Yelich
The scouting press, in their own words
The Brewers are, like the Guardians, known for their lack of HRs this year. Their lineup today was Chourio (25 HRs) Turang (21) Contreras (18) Bauers (26) Yelich (12) Mitchell (11) Pratt (3) Frelick (4) Hamilton (4)
Impressive sequence from the Brewers. Jake Bauers fouled off six straight pitches and worked a 12-pitch walk against Yoshinobu Yamamoto to load the bases. Then Christian Yelich popped a two-run single up the middle. Brewers lead, 3-2, and Yamamoto is done. It's the third inning.
Umpire favor
+1.9 net runs over 64 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Christian Yelich’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL League Championship Series, Game 4 · MIL vs. LAD · 0-4
- NL League Championship Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. LAD · 0-1, 1 R
- NL League Championship Series, Game 2 · MIL vs. LAD · 2-5, 2 RBI
- NL Division Series, Game 4 · MIL vs. SD · 1-4
- NL Division Series, Game 3 · MIL vs. SD · 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 2 · MIL vs. SD · 1-3, 2B, 2 R, 1 BB
- NL Division Series, Game 1 · MIL vs. SD · 1-3
The line
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