Rowdy Tellez Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 4" / 255 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 3/16/1995 (27)
- Experience
- 2
- College
- None
Rowdy Tellez Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Rowdy Tellez News
Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez put together an incredible performance against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday. The slugging first baseman went 4-for-6 with two home runs and eight RBIs in the 18-4 victory. He crushed a 453-foot shot in the third inning for his third career grand slam. Tellez came back with a two-run blast later in the game and almost hit a third home run. This was his first ever four-hit game of his young career. Tellez has three homers in his last four games with 21 runs knocked in this season. Fantasy managers need to get him while he's hot.
Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez is on the bench for his team's matchup with the San Francisco Giants and left-hander Sam Long on Monday. Tellez is hitting .213 with a .260 on-base percentage and three home runs in 50 plate appearances this season. Instead, Keston Hiura will play first and bat fifth against the Giants. The 25-year-old is hitting .217 with a .333 on-base percentage, a home run, and a stolen base in 27 plate appearances for Milwaukee this season. You're probably better off looking elsewhere for streaming options at first base.
Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez isn't in the team's lineup for Game 2 of the National League Division Series. The first baseman hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning during Friday's series-opening win, but he'll head to the bench on Saturday with left-hander Max Fried taking the mound for Atlanta. Instead, it'll be Eduardo Escobar moving over to first base with Luis Urias entering the lineup at third base. Escobar is batting third against Fried. During the regular season, the veteran hit .295 with a .340 on-base percentage and nine home runs in 159 plate appearances against left-handed pitching.
Batting Order
| 1 | Christian Yelich |
| 2 | Willy Adames |
| 3 | Rowdy Tellez |
| 4 | Andrew McCutchen |
| 5 | Luis Urías |
| 6 | Omar Narváez |
| 7 | Tyrone Taylor |
| 8 | Jace Peterson |
| 9 | Jonathan Davis |
Rowdy Tellez Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
| 1 | Christian Yelich |
| 2 | Willy Adames |
| 3 | Rowdy Tellez |
| 4 | Andrew McCutchen |
| 5 | Luis Urías |
| 6 | Omar Narváez |
| 7 | Tyrone Taylor |
| 8 | Jace Peterson |
| 9 | Jonathan Davis |
There was little doubt about how much pop was in Rowdy Tellez's bat. He was billed as a typical slugging first baseman, and he lived up to that billing in the shortened 2020 season. While his barrel rate that was elite in 2019 did regress some, down to 8.4%, he still did hit the ball plenty hard, as he set a new career-best in that department at 45.3%, and in the 81st percentile of all hitters last season. What held Tellez back previously was that he didn't do much else besides hit the ball hard. Up until 2020, Tellez's high strikeout rate was really holding him back. After strikeout rates approaching 30% in 2018 and 2019, Tellez did do much better, nearly halving that rate to just 15.7%. Tellez never had much of a strikeout issue in the minor leagues, so this improvement could just be due to him seeing more pitches in the Majors and getting better acclimated to them. Tellez still did chase a bit more than league-average, but the real improvement came in whiffs. His whiff rate in 2019 was among the worst in the game, but in 2020, he cut this rate down by eight percent down to 23.2%, a rate that is actually better than average. This allows Tellez to put more of his high-quality contact in play, and overall, get better results. The fly in the ointment for Tellez in 2021 is his playing time situation. The Blue Jays bulked up their lineup with the additions of George Springer and Marcus Semien this offseason. This makes Tellez only fit in the DH role, and prone to a bench spot in the event his bat goes cold for any period of time.
