Christian Yelich isn’t an All-Star this year.
That was pretty much a foregone conclusion. The Brewers’ highest-paid player missed the end of last season due to a back injury and started slow this year. Like, really slow. Through May 21 — two months before this year’s All-Star Game — Yelich was hitting .190 with seven home runs. When All-Star fan voting opened on June 4, he was up to .237 with a .746 OPS. Those numbers weren’t going to get him voted in ahead of Shohei Ohtani or Kyle Schwarber as a DH.
If you look at the outfield spots, it only gets a little easier to make an All-Star case for Yelich.