Brewers’ Yelich Is Having An April For The Ages

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The Milwaukee Brewers superstar slugger Christian Yelich has played 24 games in March and April. He leads the National League in home runs (13), RBI (31), OPS (1.259) and extra-base hits (17), is second in bWAR (1.8), slugging percentage (.820) and runs (23), third in hits (30), fourth in walks (16), seventh in on-base percentage (.439) and ninth in batting average (.332). Yelich would have to average a home run a day for most in MLB history in any month – Sammy Sosa had 20 in June 1998. Forty-seven times has a player reached 15 homers in any month. Cy Williams was the first to do it in May 1923 with 15; Aaron Judge with 15 and J.D. Martinez with 16 in September/October 2017 were the last to reach that amount in a month. Yelich has averaged 1.3 RBI per game so far this season, but he’d need to step it up to nearly three per game for the rest of April to be one of a handful of players to knock in 50 in a month’s span. Just five players have accomplished that feat, lead by Hack Wilson (August 1930) and Joe DiMaggio (August 1939) with 53. Three players drove in exactly 50 – Lou Gehrig (July 1930), Pie Traynor (August 1928) and Rudy York (August 1937). Since 1990, only four players have reached 40 RBI in a month, topped by Ryan Howard with 41 in August 2006. Ryan Klesko (May 2001), Sosa (June 1998) and Troy Tulowitzki (September/October 2010) all reached 40 RBI. Adrian Beltre, with 38 RBI in September/October 2015, has the most since Tulowitzki. There are other RBI records in sight, though, for Yelich. He’s just five away from tying and six from having the most RBI in March/April in MLB history.