SEATTLE -- It's late August, which means it's late enough in a Major League Baseball season to, well, maybe, possibly, make sort of, relatively definitive conclusions about players based on performance.
Right?
In other words, is it about the time to somewhat safely say that Jonathan Villar is an emerging star?
The Brewers third baseman entered the season as a somewhat intriguing, somewhat young (25) player who came over in a November 2015 trade with the Astros. Villar had ascended to the big leagues in Houston at the age of 22 and shown some speed but not a lot of on-base proclivity, hence a previous career-high of 263 at-bats, achieved in 2014.