Christian Yelich Is Better Than The Brewers Thought.

Milwaukee Brewers general manager David Stearns was in his office, waiting breathlessly for a phone call from Miami Marlins GM Mike Hill.

The night before, Stearns and Hill had agreed in principle on a trade that would send Yelich to Milwaukee in exchange for four prospects.

If Stearns inklings about Yelich – the former first-round draft pick whom hed admired from afar ever since taking over in Cream City a couple of years earlier – were right, the deal could help catapult the club into the upper echelon of National League contenders.

Given Yelichs resume, the level of excitement that Stearns showed on that morning was inordinate, to say the least.

To say that he and he alone is responsible for Milwaukee reaching the league championship series for just the second time since 1982 wouldnt be fair to Lorenzo Cain, the Milwaukee center fielder who signed as a free agent on the very same day that Yelich was traded and who spent the majority of the season at or near the top of everyones MVP rankings.