The Five Best Right Fielders in Brewers History

I think Yelich has to be number 1 in RF or number 2 in LF. I don’t think it’s fair to him to put him at HM in LF and 2 at RF. 
 

Even if you just want to use 18/19 as Yelich as a RF and 20-22 as a LF I would still put him over Burnitz in RF. 
 

Yelich in 18/19: 277 G, .327/.415/.631 for a 171 OPS+. He had 80 HR, 207 RBI, and 52 SB. He accumulated 14.2 bWAR. He won MVP and had an MVP-runner up. 
 

Burnitz had 15.7 bWAR in 782 games. Nearly 3 times as many games for 1.5 bWAR than those two years of Yelich. 

9 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

I think Yelich has to be number 1 in RF or number 2 in LF. I don’t think it’s fair to him to put him at HM in LF and 2 at RF. 
 

Even if you just want to use 18/19 as Yelich as a RF and 20-22 as a LF I would still put him over Burnitz in RF. 
 

Yelich in 18/19: 277 G, .327/.415/.631 for a 171 OPS+. He had 80 HR, 207 RBI, and 52 SB. He accumulated 14.2 bWAR. He won MVP and had an MVP-runner up. 
 

Burnitz had 15.7 bWAR in 782 games. Nearly 3 times as many games for 1.5 bWAR than those two years of Yelich. 

 

Yelich’s 18 and 19 were the 3rd and 4th best seasons in franchise history by position player fWAR. Only behind 2014 Lucroy and 1982 Robin Yount. 

4 hours ago, sveumrules said:

Deer (112 OPS+ | 6.9 WAR) is obviously a sentimental favorite for a lot of people (myself included) but I’d probably give a nod to the late Darryl Hamilton (100 OPS+ | 11.0 WAR) for that #5 spot.

I was going to say Hamilton at 5 would be better than Deer.

Figured Yelich was being saved for #1 in RF....now that he is not, I don't know if I really get labeling him a RFer. Even his two big seasons, one was in LF more than RF.

If you are going to base him as a RF purely based on those two seasons, then he should just vault to the top. It was probably two of the Top 5 offensive performances in franchise history. The Athletic puts them both in the Top 3. 

I was kind of excited for this position because when I thought of it, I remembered Corey Hart is totally going to make it. Sadly, he was never the same after getting injured. For a second it looked like he was going to slide in and be a really solid 1B after Fielder left. He always flew under the radar and put up great numbers. 

4 hours ago, MrTPlush said:

Figured Yelich was being saved for #1 in RF....now that he is not, I don't know if I really get labeling him a RFer. Even his two big seasons, one was in LF more than RF.

If you are going to base him as a RF purely based on those two seasons, then he should just vault to the top. It was probably two of the Top 5 offensive performances in franchise history. The Athletic puts them both in the Top 3. 

I was kind of excited for this position because when I thought of it, I remembered Corey Hart is totally going to make it. Sadly, he was never the same after getting injured. For a second it looked like he was going to slide in and be a really solid 1B after Fielder left. He always flew under the radar and put up great numbers. 

Yelich, if he'd stuck in right all along, might have edged Burnitz out for #1. But the shift to left and the sudden drop from a 7 WAR player to one who goes to 3 is pretty jarring. In a sense, I had to reward Burnitz for the consistent 30 HR, 100 RBI he delivered from 1997-2001. 

As for Hart, he would have been a great 1B. His only problem was Prince Fielder fell to number 7 in the 2002 amateur draft and the Crew snapped him up. So, off to third, where in 2003, he wins Southern League MVP for the Huntsville Stars. But then he got moved to the outfield.

That said, he was the type of guy who could be a long-term standby in the offense.