The Brewers have activated outfielder Christian Yelich from the 10-day injured list and optioned left-hander Hoby Milner to Triple-A Nashville, Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel tweets.
Yelich has already been on the IL twice this year on account of back issues, and the Brewers can only hope it won’t happen again. The former NL MVP missed about three weeks during his first stint on the shelf, and one game after he returned, Milwaukee had to put Yelich back on the IL on May 4. Yelich has been in great form when healthy enough to play, having batted .353/.463/.382 in 10 games and 41 plate appearances.
Yelich is the Brewers’ go-to option in left field, but they’ve mostly had to rely on Billy McKinney, Tyrone Taylor and Jackie Bradley Jr. with him unavailable for the majority of the season. All three of them have struggled to varying extents this year.
Nice!
Lets get it!!!!
at American Family Field.
5 days later, Brewers place Yelich on IL.
The way the season has gone so far for CY and MLB in general your take may be a bit optimistic.
Exactly what I was thinking. No only are the IL placements happening at a dizzying pace, the number of players going back on the IL shortly after being activated is insane.
Damn Hoby was just starting to get hot too
Ben Grigsby –
I sounds like there is a pretty significant chance that you are a 16 year old self proclaimed know-it-all living in your Mom’s basement with no perspective on life and/or any clue of how back injuries work. Yelich has been dealing with this his entire career. It would serve him absolutely no purpose to lie about anything, and if you have ever seen a Christian Yelich interview, you’d say the chances of him being a liar about anything at all are about 1%. I can only hope your comment was a weak attempt at trolling, because otherwise I’m concerned about what’s coming down the road….best of luck
Bring Lyan Braun back
I like to call him “Yeli-Belly”