Erik Kratz hit .236/.280/.355 in 67 regular season games as a Milwaukee Brewer, and .125/.222/.188 in 18 plate appearances in the National League Championship Series.
He was, by just about any objective measure, merely a backup catcher with a below-average bat. He should have been a completely forgettable player, the type where you look up the 2018 Milwaukee Brewers on Baseball-Reference five years from now and say, “woah, Erik Kratz was on that team?”
But Erik Kratz won’t be a forgettable player in Brewers history, in the same way Nyjer Morgan isn’t.