MLB’s Sabermetric Era Turned Lorenzo Cain from Role Player into $80M Superstar | Bleacher Report

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Traditional baseball card statistics don’t do Lorenzo Cain any favors. He’s hit .300 a few times, but he’s peaked at 16 home runs and 72 runs batted in, and he’s yet to steal 30 bases in a season.

And yet, he’s more than justifying an $80 million contract by playing like an MVP in his first season with the Milwaukee Brewers.

It’s par for the course for Cain in the traditional categories in 2018. He has…