Lorenzo Cain
CF | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 2" 214LBS | Age: 37
Draft: 2004 | Rd: 17, #496, Milwaukee Brewers | Madison County HS (FL)
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2020 21 18 4 6 0 0 .333 .429 .389 .818
2021 286 257 40 66 8 13 .257 .329 .401 .730
2022 156 145 17 26 1 2 .179 .231 .234 .465
13 Seasons 4,758 4,314 626 1,220 87 190 .283 .343 .407 .750
AVG HR SB OPS
2020 .333 0 0 .818
2021 .257 8 13 .730
2022 .179 1 2 .465
13 Seasons .283 87 190 .750
MLB Percentile Rankings
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Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls		 Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity		 Max EV Launch
Angle		 Sweet
Spot %		 XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 29 2299 457 25 5.5 4.1 90.2 111.0 9.5 35.4 .301 .473 .360 .364 .411 38.1 16.2 6.1
2016 30 1763 317 14 4.4 3.2 88.6 110.7 9.2 35.6 .276 .407 .322 .319 .369 33.4 19.4 7.1
2017 31 2515 486 17 3.5 2.6 89.1 112.0 10.2 32.1 .300 .432 .347 .348 .378 35.6 15.5 8.4
2018 32 2452 447 15 3.4 2.4 89.1 112.4 4.9 30.9 .282 .389 .359 .342 .353 40.5 15.2 11.5
2019 33 2508 460 19 4.1 3.0 89.5 110.4 6.9 31.1 .287 .414 .302 .335 .370 42.1 17.0 8.0
2020 34 73 16 0 0.0 0.0 89.0 108.8 -3.7 37.5 .379 .517 .352 .419 .437 25.0 9.5 14.3
2021 35 1134 210 9 4.3 3.1 88.4 110.4 7.2 29.0 .254 .382 .319 .317 .340 37.6 16.8 9.1
2022 36 623 110 0 0.0 0.0 87.9 108.9 3.8 21.8 .200 .253 .212 .230 .263 36.4 23.1 5.1
Player 13367 2503 99 4.0 2.9 89.2 112.4 7.8 32.1 .283 .413 .331 .336 .369 38.0 16.8 8.3
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 46.2 23.2 27.8 2.8 31.7 39.4 28.4 2.2 34.8 20.6 28.9 5.5 5.5 4.1
2016 47.9 20.8 26.8 4.4 34.1 37.9 28.1 2.5 40.1 21.1 27.4 4.1 4.4 3.2
2017 45.3 18.1 30.0 6.6 27.6 44.4 27.6 3.5 36.0 22.8 29.4 4.7 3.5 2.6
2018 54.6 16.1 25.3 4.0 28.2 39.6 32.2 3.4 43.4 17.9 28.0 4.0 3.4 2.4
2019 51.1 16.7 27.2 5.2 27.4 40.2 32.4 2.4 41.5 17.2 27.6 5.2 4.1 3.0
2020 50.0 12.5 37.5 0.0 43.8 50.0 6.3 0.0 50.0 6.3 31.3 12.5 0.0 0.0
2021 50.0 24.3 21.0 4.8 32.4 37.6 30.0 2.9 41.4 23.3 21.4 6.2 4.3 3.1
2022 59.1 15.5 20.0 5.5 34.5 41.8 23.6 5.5 48.2 19.1 19.1 8.2 0.0 0.0
Player 49.5 19.1 26.7 4.7 30.0 40.4 29.4 2.9 39.7 20.1 27.4 5.1 4.0 2.9
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.8 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2022 4-Seamer -2.1 -4 213 34.2 53 .204 .286 .249 18.8 18.9 14.1 .214 .287 .254 35.9
2022 Slider -0.8 -1 111 17.8 24 .174 .174 .179 43.3 50.0 25.0 .164 .199 .184 36.4
2022 Sinker -5.6 -6 108 17.3 31 .071 .071 .155 9.1 6.5 6.7 .197 .241 .241 38.5
2022 Changeup 3.1 2 77 12.4 17 .200 .400 .412 40.0 23.5 16.0 .170 .252 .243 27.3
2022 Curveball -0.6 0 52 8.3 16 .267 .267 .281 23.1 25.0 22.2 .202 .224 .187 41.7
2022 Cutter -3.3 -2 47 7.5 10 .300 .400 .305 33.3 20.0 12.5 .252 .274 .232 25.0
2022 Sweeper -1.2 0 8 1.3 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2022 Splitter -13.8 -1 5 0.8 3 .000 .000 .000 25.0 33.3 33.3 .208 .310 .217 50.0
2022 Slurve -11.1 0 2 0.3 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 -- .494 .531 .449 100.0
2021 4-Seamer 2.1 8 364 32.1 96 .360 .581 .463 14.2 8.3 8.2 .322 .486 .385 43.6
2021 Slider -0.6 -2 240 21.2 59 .204 .389 .276 36.9 27.1 18.8 .201 .294 .251 30.8
2021 Sinker -0.3 -1 213 18.8 64 .286 .357 .340 12.1 4.7 6.0 .245 .372 .326 37.7
2021 Changeup -2.2 -3 119 10.5 31 .071 .214 .202 28.3 29.0 20.9 .192 .321 .266 26.3
2021 Curveball 1.6 2 102 9.0 15 .286 .286 .287 27.3 20.0 11.1 .333 .460 .370 36.4
2021 Cutter -5.1 -4 78 6.9 16 .143 .143 .200 30.3 31.3 20.8 .205 .294 .274 44.4
2021 Sweeper -1.4 0 8 0.7 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 100.0 50.0 -- -- .000 --
2021 Splitter -4.0 0 6 0.5 2 .000 .000 .450 20.0 50.0 33.3 .029 .032 .042 0.0
2021 Slurve -5.5 0 2 0.2 1 .000 .000 .000 100.0 100.0 100.0 -- -- .000 --
2020 Sinker 0.1 0 28 38.4 9 .286 .429 .394 11.1 0.0 0.0 .372 .596 .481 42.9
2020 4-Seamer 7.3 1 15 20.5 4 .500 .500 .450 12.5 0.0 0.0 .549 .602 .500 0.0
2020 Curveball 3.3 0 10 13.7 -- -- -- 100.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2020 Slider 8.9 1 9 12.3 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .733 .801 .664 100.0
2020 Changeup -9.1 -1 7 9.6 3 .000 .000 .000 50.0 33.3 33.3 .086 .229 .130 0.0
2020 Cutter -18.1 -1 3 4.1 2 .000 .000 .000 50.0 50.0 100.0 .043 .043 .046 0.0
2020 Splitter 80.5 1 1 1.4 1 1.000 1.000 .900 0.0 0.0 0.0 .953 1.140 .913 0.0
2019 4-Seamer 0.1 1 954 38.0 214 .297 .443 .377 13.7 15.4 12.4 .307 .469 .376 47.4
2019 Sinker -0.8 -5 547 21.8 162 .291 .385 .337 9.2 9.3 12.3 .313 .414 .344 47.0
2019 Slider -0.6 -2 355 14.2 90 .241 .373 .308 29.1 21.1 15.8 .285 .419 .333 39.1
2019 Changeup -0.7 -2 216 8.6 55 .184 .224 .236 41.5 32.7 21.4 .236 .308 .285 29.0
2019 Curveball -1.0 -2 198 7.9 45 .186 .349 .248 19.2 17.8 13.8 .280 .435 .319 28.6
2019 Cutter -3.0 -5 158 6.3 37 .143 .171 .193 23.4 21.6 18.2 .181 .291 .227 33.3
2019 Sweeper 2.1 1 24 1.0 8 .375 .375 .338 30.0 37.5 25.0 .242 .265 .221 20.0
2019 Splitter -2.3 0 10 0.4 3 .000 .000 .000 40.0 66.7 25.0 .036 .059 .039 0.0
2019 Slurve 4.2 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seamer 1.5 12 813 33.2 189 .335 .553 .432 16.7 18.5 16.4 .296 .449 .377 42.9
2018 Sinker 1.0 7 687 28.0 196 .309 .339 .373 9.5 7.7 9.3 .270 .340 .334 41.1
2018 Slider 0.2 1 442 18.0 104 .269 .290 .308 27.5 17.3 12.4 .264 .318 .297 32.9
2018 Changeup 1.0 2 189 7.7 48 .273 .409 .347 23.9 20.8 13.9 .314 .443 .359 38.2
2018 Curveball 2.4 4 149 6.1 38 .361 .611 .454 18.2 10.5 7.8 .378 .611 .440 53.1
2018 Cutter 0.2 0 135 5.5 31 .333 .370 .363 16.0 16.1 14.3 .210 .269 .275 31.8
2018 Splitter -7.8 -2 22 0.9 9 .111 .111 .100 36.4 55.6 33.3 .170 .198 .163 50.0
2018 Sweeper -10.1 -1 11 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 42.9 50.0 25.0 .052 .059 .055 0.0
2018 Screwball 2.3 0 1 0.0 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Forkball 80.8 1 1 0.0 1 1.000 2.000 1.250 0.0 0.0 0.0 .433 .946 .578 100.0
2017 4-Seamer 0.6 5 810 32.2 213 .282 .452 .381 17.0 17.4 14.5 .276 .426 .346 38.4
2017 Sinker 1.0 6 621 24.7 160 .309 .456 .404 9.4 5.6 5.8 .338 .449 .391 36.7
2017 Slider -0.2 -1 427 17.0 101 .320 .474 .351 27.7 24.8 16.2 .310 .468 .343 38.4
2017 Curveball 0.0 0 235 9.3 63 .333 .429 .348 21.0 12.7 9.9 .304 .381 .296 32.7
2017 Changeup -0.1 0 213 8.5 55 .216 .333 .300 28.2 12.7 10.6 .286 .417 .343 29.5
2017 Cutter 0.5 1 150 6.0 37 .400 .486 .407 30.2 27.0 26.3 .288 .426 .326 24.0
2017 Splitter -0.3 0 36 1.4 7 .167 .167 .229 31.6 14.3 6.7 .183 .346 .286 40.0
2017 Sweeper -3.9 0 10 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 66.7 50.0 33.3 .303 .774 .441 100.0
2017 Slurve -4.1 0 6 0.2 4 .250 .250 .225 25.0 25.0 50.0 .260 .297 .243 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2010 157 642 2 -5 6 2 6
2012 244 1,001 -5 2 1 3 1
2013 438 1,743 -16 -7 9 7 -7
2014 566 2,098 7 -8 3 7 9
2015 671 2,579 -5 7 10 9 22
2016 431 1,757 -8 -8 10 5 -1
2017 644 2,511 -6 -15 18 13 10
2018 667 2,657 -6 -7 21 14 22
2019 618 2,474 -24 -16 13 12 -15
2021 300 1,192 -10 -4 7 6 -1
2022 156 623 -7 -12 5 2 -12
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 2,299 47.7 67.7 88.7 32.6 65.3 41.7 28.1 49.4 19.0 6.6 74.2
2016 1,763 47.9 67.1 85.5 29.8 58.8 41.9 24.9 47.7 23.2 7.0 71.5
2017 2,515 50.5 71.8 88.2 26.4 58.1 43.3 31.2 49.3 19.8 7.9 80.3
2018 2,452 49.8 63.9 88.1 21.0 64.3 43.1 24.1 42.3 17.8 7.0 75.6
2019 2,508 48.4 65.3 90.1 25.2 58.3 42.5 22.5 44.7 19.2 7.3 71.7
2020 73 49.3 58.3 95.2 16.2 16.7 34.2 19.0 37.0 22.2 9.6 42.9
2021 1,134 51.1 65.8 88.2 22.5 47.2 41.8 24.5 44.6 21.9 7.8 79.8
2022 623 50.1 73.7 82.6 32.2 55.0 42.5 35.3 53.0 25.8 6.6 80.5
Player 13,367 49.2 67.3 88.0 26.7 59.6 42.4 26.5 46.7 20.2 7.2 75.4
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 29.6 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit% 		K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate 		Speed OAA Arm
Strength
2015 88 98 83 65 88 66 53 79 83 65 66 32 64 28 95
2016 42 79 40 30 52 25 29 41 78 33 51 35 45 43 95 92
2017 71 97 51 23 85 33 20 74 87 51 76 49 70 56 88 99
2018 68 90 33 11 92 21 15 55 87 66 81 84 81 85 86 99
2019 53 91 33 14 77 29 18 57 73 68 75 41 82 72 72 98
2020 57 31
2021 74 89 93 50
2022 47 75 41
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 22.1 9 9.4 0 5 9 3 33.3
2017 23.7 15 14.8 0 8 11 6 40.0
2018 21.5 10 9.1 1 6 6 4 40.0
2019 24.0 11 10.2 1 7 5 6 54.5
2021 24.4 8 6.6 1 1 5 4 50.0
2022 27.3 1 1.0 0 0 1 0 0.0
Player 23.3 54 51.0 3 27 37 23 42.6

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 9 10 7 12 11 7 12 9 7 6 9 13 8 9 8 11 6 7 11 13 9 7 12 13 9 7 10 15 8 9 6
2017 15 16 13 15 15 15 17 10 13 12 15 20 13 15 14 16 10 14 17 15 15 17 21 15 13 14 13 17 15 15 14
2018 10 12 9 7 9 7 10 8 8 7 8 12 9 8 9 9 8 8 10 10 10 11 11 9 7 8 9 10 11 10 8
2019 11 13 8 14 10 9 12 8 9 7 9 11 13 10 9 9 8 9 11 11 11 11 13 12 7 9 9 13 13 9 9
2021 8 8 7 5 7 6 9 5 5 4 5 7 7 5 6 8 6 6 6 7 6 9 9 8 6 6 8 8 7 5 7
2022 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Player 54 59 45 54 53 45 61 41 43 37 47 64 51 48 47 54 39 45 56 57 52 56 67 58 43 45 50 64 55 49 45
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-  
Exit Velocity 90.2 88.6 -1.6 ↓ 89.1 0.5 ↑ 89.1 0.0 89.5 0.4 ↑ 89.0 -0.5 ↓ 88.4 -0.6 ↓ 87.9 -0.5 ↓
Launch Angle 9.5 9.2 -0.3 ↓ 10.2 1.0 ↑ 4.9 -5.3 ↓ 6.9 2.0 ↑ -3.7 -10.6 ↓ 7.2 10.9 ↑ 3.8 -3.4 ↓
Barrel % 5.5 4.4 -1.1 ↓ 3.5 -0.9 ↓ 3.4 -0.1 ↓ 4.1 0.7 ↑ 0.0 -4.1 ↓ 4.3 4.3 ↑ 0.0 -4.3 ↓
Hard Hit % 38.1 33.4 -4.7 ↓ 35.6 2.2 ↑ 40.5 4.9 ↑ 42.1 1.6 ↑ 25.0 -17.1 ↓ 37.6 12.6 ↑ 36.4 -1.2 ↓
Sweet Spot % 35.4 35.6 0.2 ↑ 32.1 -3.5 ↓ 30.9 -1.2 ↓ 31.1 0.2 ↑ 37.5 6.4 ↑ 29.0 -8.5 ↓ 21.8 -7.2 ↓
xBA .301 .276 -0.025 ↓ .300 0.024 ↑ .282 -0.018 ↓ .287 0.005 ↑ .379 0.092 ↑ .254 -0.125 ↓ .200 -0.054 ↓
BA .307 .287 -0.020 ↓ .300 0.013 ↑ .308 0.008 ↑ .260 -0.048 ↓ .333 0.073 ↑ .257 -0.076 ↓ .179 -0.078 ↓
xwOBA .364 .319 -0.045 ↓ .348 0.029 ↑ .342 -0.006 ↓ .335 -0.007 ↓ .419 0.084 ↑ .317 -0.102 ↓ .230 -0.087 ↓
wOBA .360 .322 -0.038 ↓ .347 0.025 ↑ .359 0.012 ↑ .302 -0.057 ↓ .352 0.050 ↑ .319 -0.033 ↓ .212 -0.107 ↓
xSLG .473 .407 -0.066 ↓ .432 0.025 ↑ .389 -0.043 ↓ .414 0.025 ↑ .516 0.103 ↑ .382 -0.134 ↓ .253 -0.129 ↓
SLG .477 .408 -0.069 ↓ .440 0.032 ↑ .417 -0.023 ↓ .372 -0.045 ↓ .389 0.017 ↑ .401 0.012 ↑ .234 -0.167 ↓
K% 16.2 19.4 3.2 ↑ 15.5 -3.9 ↓ 15.2 -0.3 ↓ 17.0 1.8 ↑ 9.5 -7.5 ↓ 16.8 7.3 ↑ 23.1 6.3 ↑
BB% 6.1 7.1 1.0 ↑ 8.4 1.3 ↑ 11.5 3.1 ↑ 8.0 -3.5 ↓ 14.3 6.3 ↑ 9.1 -5.2 ↓ 5.1 -4.0 ↓
Swing % 49.4 47.7 -1.7 ↓ 49.3 1.6 ↑ 42.3 -7.0 ↓ 44.7 2.4 ↑ 37.0 -7.7 ↓ 44.6 7.6 ↑ 53.0 8.4 ↑
Whiff% 19.0 23.2 4.2 ↑ 19.8 -3.4 ↓ 17.8 -2.0 ↓ 19.2 1.4 ↑ 22.2 3.0 ↑ 21.9 -0.3 ↓ 25.8 3.9 ↑
In Zone % 47.7 47.9 0.2 ↑ 50.5 2.6 ↑ 49.8 -0.7 ↓ 48.4 -1.4 ↓ 49.3 0.9 ↑ 51.1 1.8 ↑ 50.1 -1.0 ↓
Out of Zone % 52.3 52.1 -0.2 ↓ 49.5 -2.6 ↓ 50.2 0.7 ↑ 51.6 1.4 ↑ 50.7 -0.9 ↓ 48.9 -1.8 ↓ 49.9 1.0 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 32.6 29.8 -2.8 ↓ 26.4 -3.4 ↓ 21.0 -5.4 ↓ 25.2 4.2 ↑ 16.2 -9.0 ↓ 22.5 6.3 ↑ 32.2 9.7 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 28.1 24.9 -3.2 ↓ 31.2 6.3 ↑ 24.1 -7.1 ↓ 22.5 -1.6 ↓ 19.0 -3.5 ↓ 24.5 5.5 ↑ 35.3 10.8 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 59.9 55.1 -4.8 ↓ 64.0 8.9 ↑ 60.3 -3.7 ↓ 60.4 0.1 ↑ 61.9 1.5 ↑ 59.8 -2.1 ↓ 66.0 6.2 ↑
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 427 1 0.2 .318 .878
2017 Shifts R 643 22 3.4 .345 .397
2018 Shifts R 619 13 2.1 .356 .486
2019 Shifts R 623 10 1.6 .303 .278
2020 Shifts R 20 0 0.0 .352
2021 Shifts R 275 6 2.2 .308 .555
2022 Shifts R 155 8 5.2 .220 .086
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo