Christopher is in his third Major League season with the Cubs...Made his Major League debut on May 17, 2022...In 220 Major League games across two seasons, is batting .241 (185-for-767) with 36 doubles, seven triples, 42 home runs, 117 RBI and a .781 OPS...Entered the 2022 season ranked as the Cubs' No. 21 prospect by MLB.com...Was added to the 40-man roster Nov. 20, 2019...Has batted .250 (327-for-1,310) with 61 doubles, 17 triples, 52 home runs, 208 RBI, 58 stolen bases and a .764 OPS in 356 career Minor League games over six seasons...Reached the Triple-A level for the first time in 2021 in his third domestic season...Began his professional career in 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Cubs after signing with the organization on Aug. 23, 2015.
2023
Christopher batted .247 (96-for-388) with 17 doubles, three triples, 26 home runs, 70 RBI and a .821 OPS in 107 games in 2023 with the Cubs...Played in 29 games with Triple-A Iowa, batting .330 (38- for-115) with nine doubles, two triples, 11 home runs, 31 RBI, a .425 OBP and a 1.156 OPS...His 26 home runs were tied for the most on the team, while his 70 RBI, .821 OPS and 46 extra-base hits all ranked fifth...Hit 19 of his 26 home runs vs. right-handed pitching...Began the season with the Iowa, earning International League Player of the Month honors for April...Batted .356 (31-for-87) with eight doubles, 11 home runs and 26 RBI in 22 games during the month...Hit 10 home runs in a 14-game span from April 12- 29, including a seven RBI performance April 29 vs. Louisville...Was recalled by the Cubs, May 8 and made his season debut May 9 vs. St. Louis...Tallied a hit in each of his first 13 Major League games this season May 9-24 (14 straight games dating to Oct. 5, 2022), batting .377 (20-for-53) during the run...Hit nine home runs in his first 12 games of the season, becoming the fourth player in MLB history (since 1901) to homer nine times in his first 12 games of a season...Other players to do so: Luis González - nine in 2001, Larry Walker - nine in 1997 and Mike Schmidt - 11 in 1976...Homered in five-straight games May 17-23, becoming the first Cub to accomplish the feat since Sammy Sosa (June 3-8, 1998)...Recorded at least one hit and one run in each of his first 12 games of the season, the second-longest streak in franchise history since at least 1900 (Hank Sauer - 13 in 1954)...In eight games from June 10-18, batted .414 (12-for-29) with one double, one triple, four home runs and 13 RBI, including five multi-RBI efforts...Tallied eight RBI in a four-game span from June 13-16 for the second time in his career (also June 28-July 1, 2022)...Notched consecutive three-hit games June 15-16 for the first time in his career...May 9-June 18 ranked among the Major League leaders in slugging percentage (second, .700 - trailing Shohei Ohtani - .729), home runs (T-second, 13), OPS (sixth, 1.042) and RBI (T-seventh, 28)...Tallied a 10-game hitting streak from July 21-Aug. 2, batting .350 (14-for-40) with two home runs and 10 RBI during the stretch...Aug. 2 vs. Cincinnati, hit his 17th home run of the season (in 241 AB), surpassing his 2022 total (16 in 379 AB)...Aug. 16 vs. Chicago (A.L.), blasted his first career walk-off home run, a three-run shot in the ninth inning in the Cubs' 4-3 victory...The walk-off shot was his second career walk-off RBI (also sac fly, June 1, 2022 vs. Milwaukee)...Marked the Cubs' first walk-off home run since Jason Heyward, Sept. 8, 2021 vs. Cincinnati.
2022
Christopher in 2022 finished among the MLB rookie leaders (min. 350 AB) in home runs (sixth, 16), slugging percentage (sixth, .433), stolen bases (seventh, 10), RBI (ninth, 47), OPS (ninth, .751) and on-base percentage (11th, .308)....After his debut on May 17, ranked among Cubs team leaders in runs (T-1st, 55), home runs (3third, 16), hits (third, 89) and RBI (third, 47), slugging percentage (third, .433) and doubles (third, 19)....Recorded 39 extra-base hits, the second-most by an N.L. rookie, trailing Michael Harris II (49)....Appeared in 113 games for the Cubs, seeing time at center field (57 games), second base (33 games), third base (18 games), shortstop (13 games), designated hitter (three games) and left field (one game)... Became the first Cub since 1904 to start at four different defensive positions (2B, 3B, SS, CF) in his first five career starts....Began the season with Double-A Tennessee, batting .306 (33-for-108) with five doubles, one triple, seven home runs, 20 RBI and a .945 OPS in 28 games....From May 17-June 11, had a franchise-record, 22-game, career-opening on-base streak ... the 22-game run to begin his career was the fourth-longest in N.L. history and the eighth-longest in MLB history...During the streak, batted .303 (27-for-89) with seven doubles, two triples, three home runs, 10 RBI and 12 walks, contributing to a .388 OBP and a .916 OPS....Had his contract selected and made his Major League debut May 17 vs. Pittsburgh ... became the first Cub to homer in their first career Major League plate appearance since Willson Contreras, June 19, 2016 vs. Pittsburgh... Contreras was also the last Cub to hit a pinch-homer in his first career major league plate appearance....Tallied a Cubs season-high, 11-game hitting streak from May 20-31, batting .283 (13-for-46) with three doubles, one triple, one home run, four RBI and an .834 OPS during the run....Notched his first career walk-off RBI, a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning June 1 vs. Milwaukee....Went 5-for-9 in the doubleheader June 4 vs. St. Louis...Elias and Stats Inc. note that he became the second Cubs rookie in the last 40 years to record five-plus hits in a doubleheader (also Kris Bryant, Sept. 11, 2015, at Philadelphia)....Hit two game-opening home runs (June 7 at Baltimore, June 16 vs. San Diego), one shy of the Cubs rookie franchise record (Lou Brock, 3 in 1962)....June 30, notched a career-high, five-hit game, the youngest Cub (23 years, 6 days) with a five-hit game since Ken Hubbs, May 20, 1962 at PHI at 18 years, 148 days old....Homered in three-straight games from June 29-July 1, the first Cubs rookie to accomplish the feat since Frank Schwindel (Sept. 3-5, 2021)... Prior to Schwindel the last Cubs rookie to homer in three-straight games was Mike Olt (May 7-9, 2014) ... source: Elias)....Hit his 15th home run of the season Sept. 27 vs. Philadelphia, becoming the fifth rookie in Cubs history with a 15-plus home run, 10-plus stolen base season during their first major league campaign (last Kris Bryant - 2015)....Hit safely in seven of his last 10 games, from Sept. 22-Oct. 5, recording five extra-base hits (three doubles, two home runs), eight RBI and an .836 OPS.
2021
In 2021, reached the Triple-A level for the first time, splitting 110 games between Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa... Set career marks in games (110), hits (90), runs (65), doubles (18), home runs (18), RBI (66) and walks (55)... His 66 RBI were second-most among all Cubs minor leaguers, while his 18 homers were fourth-most... Appeared in center field (34 games), third base (23 games), right field (21 games), shortstop (14 games), second base (13 games), left field (6 games) and designated hitter (2 games)... Hit .278 (22-for-79) with seven home runs, 19 RBI and a .994 OPS vs. left-handed pitching... July 4 was named the Double-A South Offensive Player of the Week after going 8-for-18 (.444) with four home runs and nine RBI during the week... Was promoted to Iowa on Sept. 22 and played in nine games for the I-Cubs.
2020
Spent the season at the South Bend Alternate Site.
