{"id":862293,"date":"2026-09-27T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:20:17","slug":"brewers-name-christian-yelich-franchises-first-captain-with-robin-younts-approval-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862293\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers name Christian Yelich franchise\u2019s first captain \u2014 with Robin Yount\u2019s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich was named the first captain in Milwaukee Brewers franchise history Saturday, joining the New York Yankees\u2019 Aaron Judge and Kansas City Royals\u2019 Salvador Perez as the only active captains in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Milwaukee decided in a team meeting prior to its game against the St. Louis Cardinals to give the honor to the 34-year-old in his ninth season with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s been happening since he\u2019s been in this uniform,\u201d Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. \u201cEverybody knows he\u2019s our captain. Anybody that\u2019s played with him recognizes the way he upholds the standards of winning and the standards of how we conduct ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Yelich requested that Hall of Famer Robin Yount, who played his entire 20-year career with Milwaukee, sign off on his captaincy before accepting. Yount was a leader on the only Brewers\u2019 team to make the World Series in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Murphy said Yount \u201cagreed wholeheartedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIn Yeli\u2019s mind, Robin was the first captain,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Yelich, the 2018 NL MVP, was not in the starting lineup Saturday. The designated hitter is batting .236 with 12 home runs and 58 RBIs for the NL Central champions, who have the best record in the majors and have clinched home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich was named the first captain in Milwaukee Brewers franchise history Saturday, joining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-862293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}