Christian Yelich | |||||||||||||||
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Milwaukee Brewers – No. 22 | |||||||||||||||
Left fielder | |||||||||||||||
Born: Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. | December 5, 1991|||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
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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.