Hot start to the new season: Yelich named National League Player of the Week

MILWAUKEE -- Reigning National League MVP Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers has been named the W.B. Mason National League Player of the Week.

Yelich claimed his fourth career NL Player of the Week Award (last: September 23, 2018). The last Brewers player other than Yelich to win Player of the Week was Aramis Ramirez for the period ending July 5, 2015.

Among Yelich's notable accomplishments this week: