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Christian Yelich

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralDH

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #22

Born: December 5, 1991 in Thousand Oaks, CA, United States
MLB debut: July 23, 2013
Drafted: 2010, round 1
High school: Westlake
Salary, 2026: $26M

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dbWAR: 48.5
PA: 500
AVG: .235
OBP: .315
SLG: .378
wRC+: 92

Christian Yelich is a designated hitter for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he hit 12 home runs and knocked in 59 RBIs, notching 104 hits across 500 plate appearances in 117 games. His batting average was .235, 3.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .315 clip and slugged .378, for an OPS of .692, 3.7% lower than the league mark of .719 — 10th of 16 on his team, and 256th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 88.1 mph off the bat, hit 43.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 9.0% of them and made contact on 70.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 92 wRC+ puts his offence 8% below average. That comes to 0.3 dbWAR — -4.8 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, +1.1 on the bases, +2.1 on double plays, -10.7 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2026 regular season.

wRC+92

wOBA.307

ISO.143

BB%9.8%

WAR.3

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +3.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	MIL	117	500	104	12	59	11	49	135	.235	.315	.378	.143	.308	9.8%	27.0%	.307	-4.8	92	0.3
2025	MIL	150	644	151	29	103	16	64	167	.264	.343	.452	.188	.323	9.9%	25.9%	.345	+16.1	124	2.9
2024	MIL	73	315	85	11	42	21	40	58	.315	.406	.504	.189	.366	12.7%	18.4%	.395	+21.4	160	3.3
2023	MIL	144	632	153	19	76	28	78	140	.278	.370	.447	.169	.342	12.3%	22.2%	.356	+18.8	123	3.5
2022	MIL	154	671	145	14	57	19	88	162	.252	.355	.383	.130	.327	13.1%	24.1%	.330	+10.0	115	3.0
2021	MIL	117	475	99	9	51	9	70	113	.248	.362	.373	.125	.321	14.7%	23.8%	.329	+4.8	107	1.6
2020	MIL	58	247	41	12	22	4	46	76	.205	.356	.430	.225	.259	18.6%	30.8%	.346	+5.1	116	1.1
2019	MIL	130	580	161	44	97	30	80	118	.329	.429	.671	.342	.355	13.8%	20.3%	.446	+60.9	185	7.8
2018	MIL	146	651	187	36	110	22	68	135	.326	.402	.598	.272	.373	10.4%	20.7%	.427	+57.4	175	7.9
2017	MIA	156	695	170	18	81	16	80	137	.282	.369	.439	.156	.336	11.5%	19.7%	.352	+15.9	124	4.8
2016	MIA	154	659	172	21	98	9	72	138	.298	.376	.483	.185	.356	10.9%	20.9%	.371	+26.2	140	4.6
2015	MIA	126	525	143	7	44	16	47	101	.300	.366	.416	.116	.370	9.0%	19.2%	.347	+12.4	123	3.0
2014	MIA	144	660	165	9	54	21	70	137	.284	.362	.402	.119	.356	10.6%	20.8%	.345	+15.7	122	3.3
2013	MIA	62	273	69	4	16	10	31	66	.287	.370	.396	.108	.380	11.4%	24.2%	.346	+5.9	119	1.4

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Christian Yelich's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2026 Post	MIL	Postseason total · through Oct 28	12	49	41	6	11	1	1	0	5	6	10	4	.268	.388	.341	.729
		NLDS	4	17	14	2	5	1	0	0	1	2	2	2	.357	.471	.429	.899
		NLCS	3	10	10	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
		World Series	5	22	17	3	4	0	1	0	2	4	4	2	.235	.409	.353	.762
2025 Post	MIL	Postseason total	9	38	33	3	6	1	0	0	0	5	9	1	.182	.289	.212	.502
		NLDS	5	22	19	3	5	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	.263	.364	.316	.679
		NLCS	4	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	7	1	.071	.188	.071	.259
2023 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	10	8	2	4	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	.500	.600	.625	1.225
2021 Post	MIL	NLDS	4	17	15	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	8	1	.200	.294	.200	.494
2020 Post	MIL	Wild Card	2	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	.222	.222	.333	.556
2018 Post	MIL	Postseason total	10	47	36	7	7	1	0	2	3	11	7	2	.194	.383	.389	.772
		NLDS	3	14	8	4	2	0	0	1	2	6	0	2	.250	.571	.625	1.196
		NLCS	7	33	28	3	5	1	0	1	1	5	7	0	.179	.303	.321	.624
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	39	170	142	19	33	5	1	2	8	26	39	9	.232	.359	.324	.683

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	130	118	25	2	11	34	.212	.279	.331	.275	26.2%
vs RHP	370	324	79	10	38	101	.244	.327	.395	.318	27.3%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 311 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 9.0%
Exit velocity: 88.1
Max exit velo: 111.1
Hard hit: 43.1%
Sweet spot: 30.2%
Launch angle: 3.5°

Barrel rate9.0%

Exit velocity88.1 mph

Hard hit rate43.1%

Contact rate70.4%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2026.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .243.

Situational hitting

How Christian Yelich hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	500	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.315	.378	.307
Bases empty	258	229	49	5	6	27	84	.214	.302	.345	.294
Runner on first	100	92	20	2	6	7	22	.217	.273	.326	.269
Runners on	242	213	55	7	53	22	51	.258	.328	.413	.321
RISP	142	121	35	5	47	15	29	.289	.366	.479	.357

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Dylan BeaversBAL

wRC+: 93
HR: 9
AVG: .228
WAR: 0.3

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HR: 11
AVG: .236
WAR: 1.0

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HR: 7
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WAR: 0.1

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.