Who are the brewers without Christian Yelich?

In his first game during a Brewers win against the Marlins on Tuesday night, Christian Yelich, the MV's most valuable player and MVP 2019, made a foul on a shot from the right knee and fell to the ground in an excruciating pain. The right-winger Brewers left the game and shortly thereafter, the team announced that Yelich's season was over with a fractured kneecap. The body that just a week ago was proudly presented in all its splendor for an ESPN photo shoot will not be healed in time to help Milwaukee as he tries to return to the playoffs for the second year in a row. filling his gap of a match with the Cubs of the second slot for Wild Card NL.

This is particularly so because Yelich is perhaps the most exciting and exciting baseball player of Mike Trout, but also because Milwaukee seemed to want to focus on a playoff spot that seemed well out of reach. last week while he was sitting at five games. back and were also stuck behind the Diamondbacks and the Phillies. The team has been very hot lately, recording an 8-2 record in its last 10 games (including a 5-1 record against the Cubs), with Yelich having a successful OPS of 1.114.

Without their slugger star, this bursting of the end of the summer gives the impression that everything was for nothing. But even before Yelich hurt his knee with a foul ball, Milwaukee did not look so hot. The Brewers were already battling injuries in their strike order – Lorenzo Cain battled a persistent knee problem, Ryan Braun had back problems, and Mike Moustakas and young Keston Hiura's ignition candle were both marginalized by their own health problems. Receiver Yasmani Grandal is the only truly reliable batter to date. He recovered from the defeat in August and beat five players in the last eight games. Launcher personnel will not provide much more coverage to reduced training; Their only elite arm is Josh Hader, who may be throwing one or two innings per appearance, and the nearest point is starter Brandon Woodruff, who has been out since July with an oblique problem and who has not even control to return to the team. again.

All is not lost, however, and even with an injury of this magnitude, the Brewers can not be counted yet. The Cubs, losers of four of the last five games, have their own major loss to face. Defensive wizard Javier Baez is unlikely to return in the regular season after a thumb injury, which, like Yelich's injury, is bad for any neutral baseball fan, but good for teams that need Chicago to get rid of Wild Card road team place. The calendar is also on the Milwaukee side. The Brewers have more than one series to play against an alleged playoff squad – the Cardinals – and after leaving St. Louis, their final dates are those of the Padres, Pirates, Reds and Rockies. The Brewers offensive, which was at best a league average and would fall off a cliff without the power of Yelich, could still be enough to manage these cellar inhabitants of 40 men waiting for winter.

The truth is that even though the Brewers had a healthy health at Yelich, and even though they managed to overtake the Cubs for second place in the Wild Card before the end of the season, they and their points differential at -27 would still be guaranteed. size as the least impressive of all 10 MLB post-season teams. But the good side of it is that baseball could be the sport that matters the least. While there may be no precedent for an equally ignored and talented pennant that the Brewers now seem to be, the baseball playoffs are so foolish that as long as the exhausted Brewers can make up for that match against Chicago, it can happen. Christian Yelich did everything in his power to put his team in at least a menacing playoff position. All he has left are healthy friends to prolong the year hoping that luck will be favorable to them.