Whether he's starring or slumping, Christian Yelich has taken the torch as the face of the franchise in Milwaukee.

"This is Bob Uecker. He genuinely cares how you're doing ... often with the Brewers' managers, Pat Murphy and previously Craig Counsell. But in Milwaukee, everyone deferred to Uecker.

“He’s baseball first, before the money, the fame, any of that, the kid loves to play the game,’’ Brewers manager Pat Murphy says ... He sure wishes the late Bob Uecker, the radio ...