Although Yasiel Puig has only played 16 major league games, he is already being called one of the up-and-coming stars in Major League Baseball.

There’s already talk of Puig making the All-Star team with 62 at-bats under his belt so far, but in that short amount of time he is already cementing himself as one of the top baseball players in today’s game – and will likely be a first-round draft pick next season if he keeps up these numbers. Puig has gotten out to a fast start, boasting a .452 batting average along with a .799 slugging percentage and gets on base 47.7 percent of the time.

But, many people are questioning whether Puig can keep up these numbers. The batting average? Probably not, no one can keep up a batting average that high for a whole season. Same thing goes for the on-base percentage, since the current leader and best batter in the majors Miguel Cabrera only has a .453 OBP.

According to Baseball Reference, if Puig was to play a full 162-game season, he’s on pace to score 122 runs and hit 61 homers. Neither of these things are likely to happen, but it’s not out of the question to say that Puig will eclipse the 30-home run mark and will probably drive in 80 runs at least.

If he’s able to stay injury-free those numbers would easily put him in the top 12 players in next year’s ranking. If he stays healthy, Puig will end up playing in 107 games this season. For some guidance, let’s compare Puig’s numbers to some of the players who went in the first round in this year’s drafts. Mike Trout, who was ranked No. 1 in Yahoo’s preseason rankings, played in 139 games last season, scored 129 runs and hit 30 homeruns.

While Trout’s starts were greater than what Puig is on track to make, Matt Kemp started 106 games last year, and was ranked fifth in Yahoo’s rankings at the beginning in this offseason. Kemp drove in 69 runs in 2012, and hit 23 homers while hitting .303. Puig is certainly capable of eclipsing those numbers, as he showed in the minors. The 22-year-old was hitting .313 in 40 games with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts, in addition to hitting 37 RBI, and he only struk out 29 times in 147 at-bats.

When he first started out in the minors in 2012, Puig played in 23 games, hitting five homers and scoring 20 runs. Averaging almost a run per game is certainly respectable, and he could certainly be averaging that in the majors if the Dodgers were playing better as a team. Still, 12 runs in 16 games is nothing to bat an eye at, and Puig’s numbers this year and his history shows that he can truly be MLB’s next star.