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 90, LF 2 · MLB debut 2013-07-23
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-29): 9 G · .344 AVG · 1 HR · 7 RBI · .920 OPS
427 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The Chase
8 R from 1,100 — our pace: ≈ September 24, 2026 Follow the chase →
Scout’s note
Christian Yelich is 34 and a DH now, the Thousand Oaks kid taken first round in 2010, and his last ten games read .212 with two home runs and nine strikeouts — power still flickering, average not coming back.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95106.154
- Deserved (xVal)0.39968
- Got (aVal)0.38265
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.01361
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 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
- $24.03M
- Tax hit
- $23.37M
- Service time
- 12 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 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $23.9M | $23.9M | $5.4M |
| Tax hit | $23.4M | $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.
Collect Christian Yelich
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The Bureau on Christian Yelich
The scouting press, in their own words
Congratulations to Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich, who earns The Players Trust's Most Valuable Philanthropist award for the month of August.
Umpire favor
+2.1 net runs over 56 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
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