Over three homestands this spring, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel counted and recorded more than 2,000 jerseys fans wore at American Family Field to see just what, exactly, we can learn about the Milwaukee Brewers community from them.
Following is an excerpt from the story that ran May 27. For the full story, click here.
The most-common jerseys at a Brewers game
Brewers fans always have held a special place in their hearts for beloved players of yesteryear, and there, to be sure, are plenty of Robin Yount and Paul Molitor jerseys still hanging around the concourses.
More than two-thirds of jerseys, though, are of players currently on the team, a strong sign of how successful the Brewers have been in recent years.
Here are the most-spotted jerseys by name on the back our sample of 2,114 – and, yes, Christian Yelich still reigns supreme, although not by much.
OK, but what about jersey types?
Below is the breakdown of how many of each of the current Brewers’ jersey types – counting only their five current looks plus the “Brew Crew” city connects and road grays that went out of the rotation this year – were worn.
Unsurprisingly, the Brewers’ primary home look is most popular, while the relative lack of people sporting the new blue alternate road jerseys was a bit unexpected.
The team’s 2022-25 “Brew Crew” city connects remain far more popular at the games than the opinion-splitting new “Wisco” look, but that isn’t altogether shocking considering the former were sold for four years while the latter have been in stores for less than two months.
Tallying up which players are represented on the Wisco jerseys gives us an idea of which players’ jerseys are being snatched up at the most right now.
Chourio is tops among the Wiscos at 20, while Misiorowski and Turang are next at 15 and 14, respectively. Yelich, with 10 Wiscos counted, is behind Contreras (12) and tied with Frelick (10).
Filed under Unexpected in this category were one apiece for Quinn Priester, Joey Ortiz and Jesús Made, who of course is only at Class AA.
Most-common player-color combos
Chourio still trails Yelich for the unofficial mantle of most popular player by our count, but he does have the two most common jersey types of any single player.
Here are the 15 most-common jerseys by specific type.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: We counted 2,000 jerseys to see what Brewers fans really think about the team
Reporting by Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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