High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ryan Joseph Braun (nicknamed The Hebrew Hammer; born November 17, 1983, in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California) is an American right-handed Major League Baseball left fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. A perennial standout, he was ranked No. 16 by the Sporting News in its 2011 list of the 50 greatest current players in baseball and is the reigning National League MVP.