March 22, 2026, 5:26 a.m. CT
Prince Fielder
One participant in Milwaukee Brewers franchise historical past has hit greater than 45 dwelling runs in a season.
It was Prince Fielder. And he did it twice.
Fielder’s influence on the Brewers goes past the homers, however let’s be trustworthy: What everybody actually liked was a person underneath 6 ft tall and pushing three payments uncorking a swing unequaled in its violence and sending majestic bombs to the right-field bleachers.
Fielder, over seven seasons in Milwaukee, is third in franchise historical past with 230 homers. He bopped greater than 30 in all however one full season – 2006, when he hit 28. At the age of 23, he led the National League with 50 homers. You might wish to learn that sentence once more to absorb simply how unimaginable that is.
Three occasions over a five-year span, Fielder completed top-four in National League most dear participant voting, together with two third-place finishes. The first got here after his 50-homer marketing campaign, then he did it once more in his closing yr with the Brewers in 2011 as they received 96 video games and reached the NL Championship Series.
His energy is unparalleled in Brewers historical past, however Fielder might have additionally been the greatest general hitter the franchise has ever seen. He wrapped up his time as a Brewer with a .929 OPS (on-base proportion plus slugging proportion) and 144 OPS+, which weighs a hitter’s OPS in opposition to the league common and places it on a scale the place 100 is common.
Fielder had unimaginable plate self-discipline and walked 566 occasions whereas carrying a .390 on-base proportion. He led the NL in walks in 2010.
Fielder was an ironman, too. Beginning along with his rookie yr of 2006, Fielder performed all however eight out of 972 video games. You merely couldn’t take him out of the lineup as a younger participant – a lot in order that maybe his insistence on taking part in by every thing performed a job in him having to retire at age 32 as a result of extreme cervical disc herniations in 2016.
Fielder left his share of indelible pictures as a Brewer, as properly. His walk-off dwelling run in the closing week of the 2008 common season helped propel the staff again to the playoffs – though that wasn’t his most well-known walk-off blast. That one got here in September 2009 in opposition to the San Francisco Giants, which he capped along with his iconic bowling ball celebration. Earlier that yr, Fielder received the all-star Home Run Derby, and two years later he was named MVP of the All-Star Game in Arizona.
