MILWAUKEE – Every now and again, Jackson Chourio does something to remind you he’s still a kid playing this incredibly difficult game.
When Chourio stole his 20th base of the season in Friday’s series opener against the Reds to pair with his 20 home runs, it made him the youngest player in Major League history to deliver multiple 20-20 seasons. Before Chourio, the youngest was Mike Trout, who reached 20-20 status for the second time on his 22nd birthday in 2013.
Chourio is still 21, and won’t turn 22 until next March.
He hasn’t played with the fanfare of last year, when he cracked Milwaukee’s Opening Day roster as a 20-year-old and shrugged off early-season struggles to finish third in NL Rookie of the Year Award balloting, but he’s still been plenty productive for a Brewers team wi