‘Ueck was always first’: How Christian Yelich is carrying on Bob Uecker’s legacy with Brewers
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Jesse Rogers
CHRISTIAN YELICH HAD tears in his eyes.
The Milwaukee Brewers had just been eliminated from the 2024 MLB postseason in heartbreaking fashion when New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso homered off closer Devin Williams in the ninth inning of Game 3 of their wild-card series.
But Yelich wasn’t necessarily getting emotional about just his team’s loss.
The tears came after a postgame interaction with legendary Milwaukee broadcaster Bob Uecker. The two shared a bond, grown out of years of mutual respect. Aside from Uecker, Yelich had become the face of the Brewers. An MVP season in 2018 followed by a huge contract extension to keep Yelich in town for the rest of his career cemented the man some players call “Cap” as the guy in Milwaukee — after Uecker, of course.
“Yelich bridges the evolution of our franchise, going from Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Rickie Weeks to Christian Yelich,” general manager Matt Arnold told ESPN recently. “I think he’s somebody that has seen a lot in his life.”
When Uecker died in January at age 90, not long after that final game-day interaction, it hit Yelich hard. Even if he had some inkling that the painful playoff loss might be Uecker’s last, he had no way of knowing at the time that it would be Uecker’s last day at American Family Field and that the 2024 season would be the final one shared with someone who had taught Yelich so much along the way.
“I think his biggest gift was he was authentically himself,” Yelich told ESPN this month. “This is Bob Uecker. He genuinely cares how you’re doing. A young player gets called up for the first time, he knows everything about him, first time he’s ever met him, but he knows where he went to school, where he’s from. What he’s about. I tried to learn from that.”
Yelich met Uecker just days after being traded from Miami to Milwaukee in January 2018. Brewers ownership sent a plane to pick up their new star outfielder, and on it were Uecker and Hall of Famer Robin Yount. Since that day, the two had been close — hanging around the office, dugout and batting cage, often with the Brewers’ managers, Pat Murphy and previously Craig Counsell (now managing the Cubs). But in Milwaukee, everyone deferred to Uecker.
“Ueck was always first,” Counsell recalled with a smile. “That’s just how it works. Everyone wanted it to be that way. Even the best player. He wanted it that way.”
After all, it was Uecker with over 50 years in the game and the countless stories that come with all that experience. Yelich listened. And learned.
“It was just the way he connects with people,” Yelich said. “When you talk to Ueck, whether he knew you or not, you would feel as though he’d known you for a long time and you guys were great friends. I’ve tried to do that with our players as well.”
On Opening Day this year, Yelich honored Uecker by wearing a checkered-plaid suit to the ballpark in New York. Then when the Brewers memorialized their iconic broadcaster before their home opener, everyone looked to Yelich — counting on Milwaukee’s MVP to lead the way as the face of the franchise from that day forward.
“He was a huge part of that celebration for Uecker,” teammate Rhys Hoskins said of Yelich. “He was probably more nervous than stepping on a baseball field.”
‘When the tough things happen, it’s your responsibility’
YELICH IS SEVERAL years removed from his MVP-caliber seasons, but he began to recapture that form when he compiled a .909 OPS over his first 73 games last season. He was also on his way to a career high in stolen bases before back problems ended his year prematurely. It was crushing. The Brewers were a contender but would have to play on without their leader.
Despite missing the final two months on the field, Yelich was present cheering his teammates on during every step of Milwaukee’s march to a third NL Central title in four years.
That type of leadership comes as no surprise to his former manager Counsell, who said: “It’s often when the tough things happen, it’s your responsibility. That’s Yelich.”
Despite being fully recovered this season, it has been slow going at the plate for Yelich; his current .644 OPS would be a career low for an entire season.
“It took a little while to get back up to speed of just playing at the major league level and feeling things out coming off of a surgery,” he said. “But I feel good.”
Like Yelich, the entire Brewers team is scuffling so far this season. They have been shutout six times already, combined with a myriad of pitching injuries that have Milwaukee sitting in fourth place. The Brewers haven’t finished that low in the division in a decade and they’ll need their leaders more than ever to get back in the race.
Those around Yelich are confident he’ll find his form again, remembering what the Yelich experience was like during the best of times: In 2018 and 2019, he led the league in batting, slugging and OPS. It’s when his career went to another level and the Brewers began a run of making the postseason in seven of the next eight years.
“The second half of 2018 is what I remember,” Counsell said. “It changed but he didn’t change. That’s so hard to do. Everything off the field changes but he stayed true to himself.”
Asked his favorite Yelich memory, Arnold quickly recalled a game in St. Louis, late in 2018. The Cardinals intentionally walked Lorenzo Cain to get to Yelich, who promptly hit a three-run, game-changing home run off lefty Brett Cecil.
“No one could believe they pitched around anyone to get to Yelich,” Arnold said. “I remember Cain laughing, like, ‘What the heck are you guys doing?'”
Right-handed pitcher Colin Rea used to watch Yelich as a teammate but now has to face him as a member of the Chicago Cubs. He attempted to explain Yelich’s greatness: “The way the ball jumps off his bat. It’s just different. It’s like a golf swing where you’re barely trying and it goes a long way. There’s something about the point of contact.”
As Yelich tries to get back to that version of himself, he reflected on his time in Milwaukee, calling it the “right place” for him. He could have tested free agency but chose to make one of the smaller markets in the game his home when he signed an extension ahead of the 2020 season, keeping him in Milwaukee through 2028 while knowing that every year would be a fight for his team to contend.
“Yeah, of course I’ve wondered what it would’ve been like to play in a big market and have that experience, but it’s just not how my career played out,” Yelich said. “And I liked it here. I wanted to be here. They obviously wanted me to be here too, and I think it’s a great place to play baseball.
“It’s a challenge to play in a big market, but it’s also a different kind of challenge to play in this market too.”
‘It’s essential to have that pillar’
MILWAUKEE IS NEVER going to be among the league leaders in payroll. After climbing as high as 18th in that department last season — and then winning the division by 10 games — the Brewers dropped to 23rd this year. Their offseason moves were nearly nonexistent aside from signing 36-year-old starter Jose Quintana for $4 million late in the winter.
The year-over-year trend of low payrolls with high win totals has been the norm for Yelich’s entire career, first in Miami and the past seven seasons in Milwaukee. Despite the challenges that come with trying to do more with less, the Brewers continue to contend year after year — and that comes from a clubhouse full of players focused on the one thing in their control: playing the game the right way in order to win.
“You’re in an underdog role every year so you have to make up in some other areas,” Yelich said. “You can’t just go toe-to-toe with the Dodgers or the New York Yankees or the Cubs. You’re just not going to, so you have to find advantages or closeness with your team and you have to do things differently.”
Prioritizing speed and defense is one way the Brewers have found they can make up gaps with teams they cannot outspend or outslug. Milwaukee ranked second in stolen bases last season, and ranks first in that category this year. The Brewers have stolen more bases than any other National League team since Yelich arrived in 2018.
But their glove work has waned some over the first six weeks of this season, and their record has reflected it, leading Murphy to remind his team what the right way to play the game looks like. Yelich, despite making a costly error in San Francisco last month, has been front and center in backing his manager up.
“He knows the things that I’m about, he stands behind me,” Murphy said. “It’s essential to have that pillar.”
After his arrival in Milwaukee and elevation to one of the game’s best players, Yelich quickly understood that the “Brewers Way” was the path to success. When a team’s best player is playing the game the right way, others take notice.
“As a young guy, when you see an older guy take pride in that stuff, alarms go off,” 25-year-old outfielder Sal Frelick said.
Murphy added: “It’s not telling guys what they’re supposed to do. It’s showing them what you’re supposed to do.”
Others who have played with Yelich say he will pick the right moment to say something to the rest of them.
“During team meetings he’ll speak up,” Rea said. “Everyone tends to listen to what he has to say. He’s all-in on his career. That’s his total focus: ‘This is the way you’re supposed to play the game. You shouldn’t be playing it any other way.'”
Hoskins said Yelich has a “feel” for what the moment needs, like a good manager. The outfielder quickly understood his role had expanded when he signed his nine-year, $215 million contract before the 2020 season.
“When you take the money, there’s a certain responsibility that you have to not only perform, but it goes beyond performance,” Yelich explained. “I think for me it’s you still have to impact people and you have to do right by the organization. You can’t just take the money and shut it down whether you’re playing good or not.”
‘He’s someone I can go to for anything’
BRICE TURANG WAS just 18 years old in 2018, beginning his pro career at the lowest levels of the minor leagues after being drafted in the first round by Milwaukee that year. At the same time, Yelich was at the top of his sport, winning NL MVP his first year in Milwaukee and finishing second the next year. But the Brewers star still found the time to reach out to one of the franchise’s top prospects.
“He would text me in the minor leagues just to check in on how I was doing,” Turang said. “I couldn’t believe it. He would shoot a message to me when I was 18 or 19. The year he won the MVP, he would check in with me all the time.”
Now that he was the seasoned major leaguer with a secure spot in a clubhouse, he was applying the lessons that stuck with him from early in his career, taught to him when he was still in Miami.
When Yelich was a highly touted prospect trying to secure his place with the Marlins in 2013, veteran catcher Jeff Mathis played a crucial role in making him feel like he belonged.
“He just took us under his wing and talked to us about the game and what it takes to prepare in the big league, be big leaguers, how to conduct yourself and what it means to be a pro, and I’m super thankful for that,” Yelich said. “I’m trying to do that here as well.”
Twelve years later, Mathis recalls Yelich as a player who was very “receptive” to instruction, calling his former teammate “a great human being.”
“As I was getting older, younger players feel like they have it all figured out,” Mathis said in a phone interview this week. “He stood out as someone that was willing to listen. Not just to benefit himself but everyone around him.”
Now that Yelich is on the other end of those moments, he has found that letting interactions come naturally can have more of an impact than getting up and giving a rah-rah speech at the front of the clubhouse. It’s the same focus on cultivating connections that made Uecker a Milwaukee icon for so many years.
“I don’t force it trying to help those guys,” Yelich said. “It’s just more of, like, you be friends first and you build relationships with people and you’re welcoming and you introduce yourself and you talk to ’em about whatever, their life or joke around with whatever’s going on in the world: ‘What’s going on, dude? Where are you from? How’d you get here? What’s your story? Is everything good? Do you need anything? Do you have any questions?’
“It’s little things. They make a big difference.”
Nearly every young prospect in the Brewers’ clubhouse has their own story of Yelich’s impact. Frelick is another who heard from Yelich when he was still in the minors.
“You’ll be up here soon,” Yelich told him. “Let’s get ahead of that, teach what routine is, teach you what it is to be a big leaguer.”
“I’m forever grateful for that,” Frelick said.
Of all the young players who have heeded Yelich’s advice, few might have needed it more than outfielder Jackson Chourio, who debuted with the team last season as a 20-year-old.
“He knows the opportune moments to say something,” Chourio said through the team interpreter. “He knows when the time is right. He has a good feel for that.
“We had a long conversation about it being a long season. He told me to relax and play my game. It took some pressure off of me.”
Chourio finished third in rookie of the year voting and made his older teammate proud with his fast adjustment to life in the majors.
Whether it comes from an encouraging text to a minor leaguer or words of wisdom to a young major league teammate, the lessons Yelich learned from his own mentors, from Mathis to Uecker, have made him the clear face of the franchise with an impact that reaches far past his stat line.
“You want to leave wherever place you’re in better than when you got there,” Yelich said. “And for me it’s just, it’s the right thing to do to help these kids, and if you want to be on a good team, you have to play certain ways. For us, you’re going to rely on young players, and with young players there’s growing pains.
“But when people feel like a genuine connection to you, they’re more responsive and you have better relationships and you have deeper conversations and things mean more and there’s a closeness and a tightness and a bond that’s created there. That leads to winning baseball.”
Turang added: “He’s someone I can go to for anything.”
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Alden Gonzalez
Max Muncy returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ lineup on Monday, Aaron Judge was back in the New York Yankees‘ batting order on Tuesday, and with that, the two teams that met in last year’s World Series — and had been underperforming to varying degrees in recent weeks — received valuable reinforcements for the stretch run.
They’re far from alone.
Now that the trade deadline has passed and less than two months remain in the regular season, contending teams throughout the sport are counting on key players returning from injury in the days and weeks ahead, hoping they might make the difference between missing out on October and winning it all. And given the landscape, which many consider as wide-open as ever, they just might.
Below is a look at some of the most impactful players on their way back.
Expected return date: The injury to Álvarez’s right hand has featured plenty of drama and required a lot of patience. The Astros initially diagnosed it as a muscle strain in early May and began the process of ramping him up by late June. Then came lingering pain, prompting a visit to a specialist and the revelation that the outfielder was dealing with a fractured bone. Perhaps, though, there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Álvarez resumed hitting off a tee and taking soft toss a couple weeks ago and hit on the field at the team’s spring training facility on Tuesday. The Astros are going to be really careful this time around, but there is hope he can help them down the stretch.
What he means to the team: The Astros lost Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker over the offseason and have received just 121 plate appearances from Álvarez — and a paltry slash line of .210/.306/.340 — yet they’re on pace for their eighth American League West title in nine years. You would be hard-pressed to find a more impressive development this season. When healthy, Álvarez is on par with Judge and Shohei Ohtani among the game’s most imposing hitters. Given how well the Astros have pitched, plugging Álvarez back into the middle of their lineup — with an ascending Jeremy Peña, a better-of-late Jose Altuve and what they hope is a rejuvenated Carlos Correa — could put them in the conversation for the best team in the AL, if not all baseball.
Expected return date: Right-hander Assad, out all year with a left oblique injury he reaggravated around late April, made his third rehab start on Wednesday, looking sharp while pitching into the fifth inning. His next step could be joining the rotation. Taillon is right behind him. The 33-year-old right-hander has been dealing with a right calf strain for a little more than a month but pitched three innings in a Triple-A rehab start on Sunday. He gave up seven runs, but he also came out of it feeling healthy. That’s all that matters at this point. Cubs starters not named Matthew Boyd and Shota Imanaga have combined for a 4.63 ERA this season. And at this point, there is no outside help coming.
What they mean to the team: The Cubs did not land the controllable front-line starter they desired before the trade deadline. The starter they did acquire, Michael Soroka, pitched two innings in his debut on Monday, then landed on the injured list with right shoulder discomfort. Now, the Cubs need to make up for what they lack in their rotation internally. Assad fashioned a 3.73 ERA in 29 starts last year and was effective both out of the rotation and in the bullpen in 2023. Taillon, a proven innings eater who consistently pounds the strike zone, is probably as good a complement to Boyd and Imanaga as the Cubs can get.
Expected return date: Bieber, who had Tommy John surgery, has not taken the mound in a major league game since April 2, 2024, but the former Cy Young Award winner’s return is approaching. The right-hander made his fifth rehab start — and first since being acquired by the Blue Jays — on Sunday, striking out six batters across five innings. He’ll make another start on Saturday, then perhaps one more after that. Then the Blue Jays will see if they can get the front-line starter they envisioned when they unloaded promising pitching prospect Khal Stephen to pry Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians last week.
What he means to the team: The Blue Jays are counting on several offensive contributors returning in the not-too-distant future, including George Springer, Andrés Giménez and, they hope, Anthony Santander. But Bieber is the wild card. If he’s close to what he was even after winning the AL Cy Young Award in 2020 — a guy who put up a 3.13 ERA and struck out 459 batters in 436⅔ innings from 2021 to 2024 — he can join Kevin Gausman and José Berríos to form a really solid rotation trio in October. But the initial returns from Tommy John surgery can be tricky. Just ask Sandy Alcántara.
Expected return date: Bohm took a sinker to his left side on July 12 and later learned he had suffered a fractured rib, but the 29-year-old third baseman has been hitting ground balls and taking batting practice and will now venture out on a rehab assignment. He could return to the Phillies’ lineup this month. Nola went on the injured list for the first time in eight years because of a sprained right ankle in mid-May, then was diagnosed with a stress reaction in one of his ribs a month later. Now, Nola is finally on his way back. He went 3⅔ innings in his second rehab start on Wednesday and will make one or two more before rejoining the rotation.
What they mean to the team: Bohm and Nola have served as catalysts while these Phillies have ascended to near the top of the sport in recent years, and it’s hard not to see them having a massive say — good or bad — in October. The Phillies need them to be healthy, but they also need them to be better. Bohm was slugging just .391 before going down. Nola, meanwhile, carried a 6.16 ERA through his first nine starts — one year after receiving Cy Young votes. The Phillies’ rotation has been one of the game’s best this season, and it can handle an ineffective Nola if it absolutely has to. But the offense needs Bohm’s production.
Expected return date: Burger is navigating his second stint on the IL this season, this time because of a left quad strain, but he has played in a couple of rehab games and could return before the end of the Rangers’ current homestand. Carter, an outfielder, was shut down with back spasms on Saturday, and though there’s currently no reason to believe it’s a serious injury, it’s worrisome when you consider how back issues plagued him in 2024.
What they mean to the team: The 2025 Rangers do everything well except the one thing they felt they could do best: hit. And while the offense has been a lot better lately, the Rangers could use more production from Burger and Carter in hopes of grabbing a playoff spot in a wide-open AL. Burger has slashed just .228/.259/.401 in his first year in Texas, but could at the very least platoon with fellow first baseman Rowdy Tellez, who has been a godsend since signing a minor league deal in early July. Carter, a rookie sensation during the stretch run of the team’s championship season in 2023, was slashing just .238/.323/.381.
Expected return date: Gasser, the 26-year-old left-hander who excelled in his first five major league starts last year, is in the late stages of his recovery from Tommy John surgery. His fourth rehab start came Sunday, during which he threw 16 pitches in the game and 19 in the bullpen. The Brewers are building him back up as a starter, so he still needs to increase his pitch count. But he’s on track to join a loaded Brewers pitching staff before the end of August. So is rookie All-Star Jacob Misiorowski, who suffered a bruised left shin last week but isn’t expected to miss much more than the minimum amount of time. Outfielder Jackson Chourio, who landed on the IL with a hamstring strain last week, could be back by the end of the month, too.
What he means to the team: The Brewers acquired Gasser as part of the package that sent former closer Josh Hader to San Diego in summer 2022 and watched him shine as a rookie in 2024, putting up a 2.57 ERA with one walk in 28 innings. But then his ulnar collateral ligament gave out, triggering a long rehab that is finally reaching its conclusion. The Brewers see him as a starter long term, but there might not be room for him in the 2025 rotation. If that’s the case, he can be an impact lefty out of the bullpen. The Brewers acquired only one traditional reliever in Shelby Miller before the trade deadline, largely because they believe starters like Gasser, Chad Patrick and Tobias Myers can help them out of the bullpen when it matters most.
Expected return date: It has been a long, slow climb back for Greene and the right groin strain he suffered, for a second time, on June 3. The right-hander seemed to be approaching a return in July, but he experienced lingering pain and had to shut it down once more. Now, though, his return seems imminent. Greene navigated a third rehab start on Sunday, during which he struck out seven batters in 3⅓ innings, and is scheduled to ramp up to 80 pitches on Friday. After that, he could rejoin the rotation. With Nick Lodolo shut down with a blister that materialized on his left index finger in his Monday start, the Reds need Greene now more than ever.
What he means to the team: Here’s what Greene has done since the start of last July: 1.92 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 133 strikeouts, 30 walks, 112⅔ innings. Those are the numbers of not just a traditional front-line starter, but of one of the best pitchers in the game. The Reds have hung around all year, getting better starting pitching than they probably anticipated, but less offense than they hoped. They’ve underperformed their projections, but they still sit just three games back of a playoff spot. Greene — and Lodolo, who might require only a minimum stint on the injured list — could make the difference.
Expected return date: For the better part of two months, questions swirled around the state of King’s health and whether he would pitch at all this season. The 30-year-old right-hander was dealing with a thoracic nerve issue in his right shoulder, an exceedingly rare injury for a pitcher. He simply had to wait for the pain to subside, with no idea when it would. Now, though, he is on the doorstep of returning to the major leagues. King threw 61 pitches in 3⅓ innings in a rehab start on Sunday, allowing six runs but also striking out five batters. His next start is expected to come this weekend against the Boston Red Sox.
What he means to the team: Padres general manager A.J. Preller put together an epic trade deadline, upgrading at catcher, adding two competent bats to the lineup and, most notably, landing another impact arm for the bullpen. His starting-pitching additions, though, were depth players; JP Sears and Nestor Cortes are not expected to make playoff starts. What the Padres need is for King — their Game 1 starter in last year’s postseason, their Opening Day starter this year and owner of a 2.59 ERA in his first 10 starts — to join Dylan Cease, Yu Darvish and Nick Pivetta in the rotation to truly make this one of the most well-rounded teams in the sport. It seems that will happen.
Expected return date: Kopech, nursing a right knee injury, has been throwing bullpen sessions and is expected to be activated once he’s eligible to come off the 60-day injured list in late August. Left-hander Scott, dealing with elbow inflammation, has also been throwing off a mound and doesn’t seem far off, either. Yates’ situation, though, is a little hazier. The 38-year-old right-hander had been dealing with lower back pain for a couple weeks before landing on the IL at the start of August. There is no timetable for his return, though it seems possible that he, too, can be back before the end of the month.
What they mean to the team: The Dodgers have once again absorbed a slew of injuries throughout their staff, having already deployed 38 pitchers — one year after setting a franchise record by using 40. Their bullpen has led the majors in innings for most of this season. At the deadline, though, the front office acted conservatively, adding just one bullpen arm, right-hander Brock Stewart, along with reserve outfielder Alex Call. The approach showed confidence in the arms the Dodgers have coming back, especially in the bullpen. But Scott and Yates, their two big offseason signings, have combined for a 4.21 ERA this season. Right-hander Kopech, meanwhile, has appeared in just eight games. They’ll have a lot to prove.
Expected return date: Optimism around Meadows emerged on Monday, with some light running in the outfield — a subtle sign he is progressing once again toward a rehab assignment. Meadows, 25, missed the first two months of the season with inflammation in his upper right arm that he later learned was a product of issues with his musculocutaneous nerve. He spent most of June and July in the lineup, then landed on the injured list once more, this time because of a right quad strain. The hope is that he can be back playing center field before the end of August.
What he means to the team: Meadows accumulated 11 outs above average in center field from 2023 to 2024 despite playing in only 119 games. In that stretch, he also stole 17 bases, provided a .729 OPS — with fairly even splits against lefties and righties — and accumulated 3.1 FanGraphs wins above replacement. As the Tigers march toward their first division title in 11 years and vie for a first-round bye, they find themselves longing for Meadows in several ways. The hope is that he’ll be a much better hitter than he showed earlier this season, when he slashed .200/.270/.296 in 137 plate appearances.
Expected return date: Megill has been absent from the Mets’ rotation since the middle of June because of a right elbow sprain but threw 20 pitches in a simulated game at Citi Field on Sunday. He is expected to extend to two innings in another session on Thursday. A rehab assignment will follow shortly thereafter, putting Megill on track to potentially rejoin the Mets’ rotation later this month. Megill was solid before going down, posting a 3.95 ERA in 14 starts, and the Mets’ rotation could really use some of that right now.
What he means to the team: When Megill got hurt on June 14, the Mets’ rotation easily led the majors with a 2.82 ERA. Since then, the group has posted a 5.12 ERA, ranked 26th. Lately, it has only gotten worse. The Mets have lost eight of their past nine games, and in that stretch, the starters have allowed 34 runs (32 earned) in 43⅔ innings. Sean Manaea, Frankie Montas, Clay Holmes and Kodai Senga have all had their struggles, to varying degrees, of late. And though Megill certainly can’t fix that alone, another capable starter would certainly be welcomed.
Expected return date: Miller, limited to just 10 starts this season, cruised through his first rehab start on Friday, tossing four scoreless innings, and is scheduled to stretch to five innings on Thursday. Given that he has gone on the IL because of right elbow inflammation twice this year, requiring a cortisone shot and a platelet-rich plasma injection, the Mariners will play it safe — Miller will make two more rehab starts before being activated. Robles dislocated his left shoulder while making an incredible catch in San Francisco on April 6 and is way ahead of schedule. He’s expected to begin a rehab assignment next week and could return before the end of August.
What they mean to the team: Robles is the Mariners’ leadoff hitter and spark plug. Over a 77-game stretch after Seattle signed him as a free agent last summer, he slashed .328/.393/.467. And if he can produce something close to that, a Mariners offense that added Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suárez before the trade deadline and has received a dominant season from Cal Raleigh will be as deep as it has been since Jerry Dipoto took over baseball operations 10 years ago. The Mariners haven’t received as much from their rotation as they would have expected this year, but a staff of Logan Gilbert, Luis Castillo, Bryan Woo, George Kirby and Miller — 12-8 with a 2.94 ERA while healthy last year — still rivals the best in the game.
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