Lorenzo Cain
Milwaukee Brewers 2010; Kansas City Royals 2011–2017; Milwaukee Brewers 2018–2022
Percentile snapshot
2019 season — qualified batters
of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | 158 | 147 | 17 | 45 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 28 | 7 | 1 | .306 | .348 | .415 | .763 | 108.5 | 106.3 | .343 | 0.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .304 | .318 | .623 | 71.1 | 72.0 | .282 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 61 | 244 | 222 | 27 | 59 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 31 | 15 | 56 | 10 | 0 | .266 | .316 | .419 | .734 | 98.9 | 99.4 | .320 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 115 | 442 | 399 | 54 | 100 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 33 | 90 | 14 | 6 | .251 | .310 | .348 | .658 | 79.6 | 81.2 | .295 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 133 | 502 | 471 | 55 | 142 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 53 | 24 | 108 | 28 | 5 | .301 | .339 | .412 | .751 | 111.7 | 111.0 | .334 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 140 | 604 | 551 | 101 | 169 | 34 | 6 | 16 | 72 | 37 | 98 | 28 | 6 | .307 | .361 | .477 | .838 | 128.1 | 126.3 | .361 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 103 | 434 | 397 | 56 | 114 | 19 | 1 | 9 | 56 | 31 | 84 | 14 | 5 | .287 | .339 | .408 | .747 | 99.9 | 100.7 | .323 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 155 | 645 | 584 | 86 | 175 | 27 | 5 | 15 | 49 | 54 | 100 | 26 | 2 | .300 | .363 | .440 | .803 | 115.4 | 112.8 | .349 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 141 | 620 | 539 | 90 | 166 | 25 | 2 | 10 | 38 | 71 | 94 | 30 | 7 | .308 | .395 | .417 | .813 | 127.0 | 120.3 | .367 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 148 | 622 | 562 | 75 | 146 | 30 | 0 | 11 | 48 | 50 | 106 | 18 | 8 | .260 | .325 | .372 | .697 | 83.2 | 81.7 | .306 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .389 | .817 | 119.5 | 123.7 | .355 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 78 | 286 | 257 | 40 | 66 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 36 | 26 | 48 | 13 | 2 | .257 | .329 | .401 | .729 | 98.4 | 96.5 | .323 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 43 | 156 | 145 | 17 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 2 | 2 | .179 | .231 | .234 | .465 | 29.2 | 32.5 | .213 | -0.7 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-10 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 2013-04-20 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017-06-10 | KC @ SD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017-06-16 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 2015-09-11 | KC @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.