Christian Yelich says the brand of baseball that carried the Milwaukee Brewers to their first World Series title — a style fans and media have nicknamed “Brewer Ball” — will be difficult for other teams to copy, even as the rest of Major League Baseball takes notice.
Yelich spoke with OutKick ahead of a fan appearance at a Raising Cane’s in Greendale, Wisconsin, part of a stretch of celebrations across the Milwaukee area following the team’s five-game series win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
“It’s been awesome,” Yelich said. “We’ve been busy kinda bouncing around everywhere. Not a whole lot of sleep, but I think that’s kinda how it should be. Still taking it all in and celebrating with everybody still. It’s been an awesome couple days.”
The Brewers won 103 regular-season games built on fundamentals and situational play rather than the power-and-launch-angle approach that has dominated much of the sport in recent years. That approach carried them through a postseason sweep of the defending back-to-back champion Los Angeles Dodgers and into the World Series, where they nearly swept Tampa Bay before a Game 4 walk-off kept the Rays alive. Milwaukee closed it out in five games.
Asked whether other franchises will now try to adopt the Brewers’ approach, Yelich said the hard part isn’t the strategy — it’s the buy-in.
“Yeah, I think everybody tries to do it, but it’s really hard to do it,” Yelich said. “It takes a team that’s together and everybody’s bought in and going in the same direction. I think that was one of our biggest strengths — the togetherness of everybody and everybody sharing a common goal. Being willing to do whatever it took to accomplish that.”
Yelich, who has played for Milwaukee since 2018, has spent recent days celebrating with fans across the region. More than 400 people turned out to see him at the Raising Cane’s appearance in Greendale on Monday, following Friday’s victory parade through the streets of Milwaukee. He was joined by his mother, grandmother and dog, Winston, signing baseballs and jerseys for fans. Over the weekend, Yelich appeared on “Saturday Night Live” alongside teammate Brice Turang and manager Pat Murphy.
“Just seeing people make memories and celebrate the championship with us. We knew how much it meant to everybody and how much everybody wanted us to get this done,” Yelich said. “We’ve been close for a while now and finally getting over that hurdle and finally getting it done has been awesome. Just really cool to see how happy it’s made people and how much fun everybody’s been having the last few days.”
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