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- Updated: August 23, 2016
MILWAUKEE — David Stearns’ Astros imports reached nice, round numbers in the Brewers’ 4-2 win over the Rockies on Monday.
Jonathan Villar stole a base in each of the first two innings to become the fourth player in franchise history to steal 50 bases in a season, and Chris Carter hit a solo home run in the third to become the first Brewer since 2012 to reach the 30-homer plateau. Villar was acquired in a trade and Carter via free agency after playing the previous three seasons under Stearns, who was Houston’s assistant GM before taking the top job in Milwaukee.
Did they come to Milwaukee with chips on their shoulders?
“You’ve got to a little bit, especially being non-tendered, or in a situation where a team lets you go or they trade you or something like that,” said Carter. “You have to keep working and try to get back to where you should be.”
Villar came to the Brewers first via a Nov. 19 trade for Minor League pitcher Cy Sneed, a former third-round Draft pick who has a 4.40 ERA in 22 games, 18 starts, for Double-A Corpus Christi this season. Villar is the first …
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