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Lorenzo Cain

Milwaukee Brewers National League CentralCF

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 214 lb
Number: #6

Born: April 13, 1986 in Valdosta, GA, United States
MLB debut: July 16, 2010

dbWAR: 21.9
PA: 156
AVG: .179
OBP: .231
SLG: .234
wRC+: 31

Lorenzo Cain was a center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2022 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 26 hits across 156 plate appearances in 42 games. His batting average was .179, 26.1% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .231 clip and slugged .234, for an OPS of .465, 34.1% lower than the league mark of .706 — the worst on his team, and 461st of 469 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 87.9 mph off the bat, hit 36.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 74.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 31 wRC+ puts his offence 69% below average. That comes to -0.7 dbWAR — -12.4 runs with the bat, +0.2 for the ballpark, -0.5 on the bases, +0.3 on double plays, +1.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2022 regular season.

wRC+31

wOBA.213

ISO.055

BB%5.1%

WAR-.7

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These terms sum to -6.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2022	MIL	42	156	26	1	9	2	8	36	.179	.231	.234	.055	.229	5.1%	23.1%	.213	-12.4	31	-0.7
2021	MIL	78	286	66	8	36	13	26	48	.257	.329	.401	.144	.287	9.1%	16.8%	.321	+1.1	102	1.4
2020	MIL	5	21	6	0	2	0	3	2	.333	.429	.389	.056	.375	14.3%	9.5%	.355	+0.6	122	0.1
2019	MIL	145	623	146	11	48	18	50	106	.260	.325	.372	.112	.301	8.0%	17.0%	.305	-9.6	88	1.0
2018	MIL	140	620	166	10	38	30	71	94	.308	.395	.417	.109	.357	11.5%	15.2%	.362	+22.2	130	4.9
2017	KC	155	645	175	15	49	26	54	100	.300	.363	.440	.140	.340	8.4%	15.5%	.350	+13.8	120	4.0
2016	KC	103	434	114	9	56	14	31	84	.287	.339	.408	.121	.341	7.1%	19.4%	.325	+1.0	97	1.2
2015	KC	140	604	169	16	72	28	37	98	.307	.361	.477	.171	.347	6.1%	16.2%	.364	+22.5	132	4.9
2014	KC	130	502	142	5	53	28	24	108	.301	.339	.412	.110	.380	4.8%	21.5%	.334	+7.7	114	2.6
2013	KC	112	442	100	4	46	14	33	90	.251	.310	.348	.098	.309	7.5%	20.4%	.295	-7.7	82	0.6
2012	KC	60	244	59	7	31	10	15	56	.266	.316	.419	.153	.319	6.1%	23.0%	.322	+0.6	101	0.9
2011	KC	6	23	6	0	1	0	1	4	.273	.304	.318	.045	.333	4.3%	17.4%	.281	-0.7	73	-0.0
2010	MIL	43	158	45	1	13	7	9	28	.306	.348	.415	.109	.370	5.7%	17.7%	.342	+2.0	111	0.9

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Lorenzo Cain's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	MIL	NLDS	4	14	13	0	3	0	0	1	1	2	1	.231	.286	.231	.516
2019 Post	MIL	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.250	.250	.500
2018 Post	MIL	Postseason total	10	48	45	4	11	4	0	1	3	12	0	.244	.292	.333	.625
		NLDS	3	14	12	1	1	0	0	0	2	3	0	.083	.214	.083	.298
		NLCS	7	34	33	3	10	4	0	1	1	9	0	.303	.324	.424	.748
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	16	74	62	11	16	2	1	11	11	14	6	.258	.365	.339	.704
		ALDS	5	22	20	5	5	1	1	2	2	5	0	.250	.318	.450	.768
		ALCS	6	26	20	3	6	0	0	5	5	3	2	.300	.423	.300	.723
		World Series	5	26	22	3	5	1	0	4	4	6	4	.227	.346	.273	.619
2014 Post	KC	Postseason total	15	68	60	13	20	5	0	8	5	9	2	.333	.388	.417	.805
		Wild Card	1	6	6	2	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833
		ALDS	3	14	13	2	2	0	0	1	0	3	0	.154	.143	.154	.297
		ALCS	4	18	15	5	8	2	0	1	2	3	1	.533	.588	.667	1.255
		World Series	7	30	26	4	8	2	0	4	3	3	0	.308	.400	.385	.785
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	46	208	184	28	51	11	1	21	20	38	9	.277	.348	.353	.701

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	49	44	3	0	5	9	.068	.163	.114	.142	18.4%
vs RHP	107	101	23	1	3	27	.228	.262	.287	.245	25.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 110 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 87.9
Max exit velo: 108.9
Hard hit: 36.4%
Sweet spot: 24.5%
Launch angle: 3.8°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity87.9 mph

Hard hit rate36.4%

Contact rate74.2%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2022.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .242.

Situational hitting

How Lorenzo Cain hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	156	—	—	—	—	—	—	.179	.231	.234	.213
Bases empty	84	78	13	0	0	5	20	.167	.226	.205	.202
Runner on first	34	32	6	1	2	2	8	.188	.235	.313	.244
Runners on	72	67	13	1	9	3	16	.194	.236	.269	.226
RISP	38	35	7	0	7	1	8	.200	.237	.229	.211

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2022.

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Nearest 2022 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 28
HR: 3
AVG: .166
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Very close

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wRC+: 35
HR: 3
AVG: .210
WAR: -1.3

Bligh MadrisPIT

wRC+: 44
HR: 1
AVG: .177
WAR: -0.5

James McCannNYM

wRC+: 55
HR: 3
AVG: .195
WAR: -0.2

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.