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2020 Fantasy Baseball: Christian Yelich Locked-In at No. 3 Pick on Draft Day

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder made the leap into the game’s elite two seasons ago, and in 2019, further cemented himself among the game’s best.

For fantasy fans who bought into his potential for a breakthrough 2018 season, Yelich bestowed upon them the second-best performance in SIscore (11.65) among batters. Such a strong SIscore came in spite of a broken right knee cap injury which excluded him from the last 18 games that year. Yelich’s average hit rate (2.037) also ticked higher while he also improved his swing path (ground ball rate – 43.2, 51.8 in 2018, and 55.