Jackson Chourio is scheduled to receive a replacement from Milwaukee valued at $118.5 million.

Naturally, we are referring to Brewer Hicklen, a non-roster invitee to the Milwaukee Brewers’ major league spring training. The 28-year-old Alabama native will spend the next few weeks fighting for a job in a Milwaukee outfield that is brimming with talent. If ever there was a marketing match made in heaven between player and franchise, this is it. Even Hicklen, who has heard the jokes numerous times, acknowledges their serendipitous nature. NRI OF Brewer Hicklen is the first interviewee of the spring. What was the question I asked him?

Yeah, it is pretty cool,” he said. “It’s just a family name. It was my great- great-grandmother’s maiden name, so my mom decided that she liked it. I had never met another Brewer until a couple years ago, and then this past year in Omaha in Triple-A with the Royals I met a baby that was named Brewer because they saw the scoreboard and liked the name.

“There’s some more Brewers out there. There’s not a ton, but it’s pretty a unique and uncommon name and I’m really excited. I hope the marketing team will have a good time trying to put something together if I do something cool.” Hicklen was known for more than his first name before signing a minor-league deal with Milwaukee in late November. An accomplished two-way athlete in high school, the 6-foot-1, 220-pound Hicklen carried his dual talents to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, where he played wide receiver on the football team (which disbanded in 2014 but revived in 2016) and hit .308 with a .911 OPS in 107 games for the Blazers over 2016 and 2017.

“I feel like I’m kind of a power-speed duo that you don’t necessarily get,” Hicklen said. “I kind of have that hard-headed, hard-nosed, gridiron way that I approach the game. Any time I’m between the white lines I’m going to put my best foot forward. You never know when your last day is going to be playing this game, so I don’t take for granted any day or any game.”