Graduated from Granada Hills (CA) High School...Attended the University of Miami (FL), where he was a First Team Freshman All-American.....was also named National Freshman of the Year by Baseball America...His mother, Diane, works as a brewer in Van Nuys, CA...Hobbies include going to the beach, water sports, music, movies and cars

Was named Brewers Top Newcomer as voted on by members of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America...Was named Sporting News' National League Rookie of the Year as voted on by the players and managers...Was the recipient of the Players Choice Award for Outstanding Rookie in the National League as voted on by the players...Was named National League Rookie of the Year by Baseball America...Had one of the greatest rookie seasons in Major League history as he batted .324 with 34 HR, 97 RBI and 15 stolen bases in 113 games.....made 112 starts, all at third...His .634 slugging percentage led the National League and was the highest by a rookie in Major League history, breaking the record previously held by Mark McGwire, who slugged .618 with Oakland in 1987...Led National League rookies in home runs (34) and extra-base hits (66) and ranked among rookie leaders in RBI (2nd, 97), runs (2nd, 91), total bases (2nd, 286), triples (2nd, 6), multi-hit games (2nd, 47), hits (3rd, 146), batting average (4th, .324), stolen bases (4th, 15) and on-base percentage (4th, .370)...Broke the franchise rookie home run and RBI records previously held by Prince Fielder (28hr and 81rbi, 2006)...Began the season at Triple-A Nashville, where he batted .342 with 10 HR, 22 RBI and 4 stolen bases in 34 games...Contract was purchased from Nashville on 5/24...Made his Major League debut on 5/25 at San Diego and went 1-for-4 with a run, double, 2 RBI and a sac fly.....his first career hit was an RBI-double off Doug Brocail.....the next night belted his first career home run with a solo shot off Justin Germano...Was named National League Rookie of the Month for June (.382, 6hr, 21rbi) and National League Rookie and Player of the Month for July (.345, 11hr, 25rbi)...Became the fastest player in franchise history to reach 10 (38g), 15 (50g), 20 (64g), 25 (82g) and 30 (94g) career home runs, breaking the records previously held by Bill Schroeder (61g, 71g, 94g, 119g and 188g)...Became the fastest player in the Major Leagues to reach 20 career home runs since Albert Pujols (63g, 2001) and the fastest to reach 25 and 30 career home runs since Mark McGwire (77g and 84g, 1986-87)...Led the team with 47 multi-hit games, including 4-hit efforts on 6/22 vs. Kansas City and 6/30 at Chicago-NL...Produced three 2-homer games: 7/6 at Washington, 7/13 vs. Colorado and 9/9 at Cincinnati