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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, June 18, 2022Milwaukee Brewers designate outfielder Lorenzo Cain, 36, for assignment after ‘a great career’
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Posted: June 18, 2022 at 06:56 PM | 27 comment(s)
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1. Doug Jones threw harder than me Posted: June 18, 2022 at 08:42 PM (#6082746)If he doesn't want to continue with his career, one would hope the Royals will sign him, activate him and allow him to have a standing ovation for one last time at Kauffmann Stadium, before he retires for good.
Total 11.6 WAR on a 5 year, 80M contract, plus 15 post season games, 68 PA batting .242/.288/.307, .594 OPS
How would you rate these contract results ?
Not my words. Just relaying what was shared with me
David Stearns is also on record that the contract was worth it after two seasons
Feel free to call BS.
That's a bit of a reductive way of looking it.
Season 2 of the contract was a full season: 148 G, 2.6 WAR, 0.7 WAA. Not excess value on a $16m contract, but still a good player.
Season 3 was 5 games then opted out for COVID; I think that means he didn't get paid? Special circumstances.
Season 4 he was hurt a lot, only 78 games. But 2.2 WAR, 1.3 WAA. Pro-rated to a full season that's 4.4 WAR, 2.6 WAA. That's still really good.
This season he was really bad.
Also a great example of steering African-American athletes towards baseball. He only tried out for baseball because he got cut from the basketball team in HS, and didn't know a lot of the nuances of the game (the legend was in his first practice he wore a left-handed glove, because he didn't know you were supposed to wear the glove on the hand you didn't throw with). He sat the bench his junior year. They guy would end up as one of the best defensive outfielders of his era, finish 3rd in MVP voting in 2015, and had the best display of baserunning I've ever seen in Game 6 of the ALCS when he scored from first on a single.
Class act all the way, loved seeing his smile in centerfield and his amazing catches on a nightly basis.
Godspeed, Lorenzo Cain.
That's quietly a very classy move by the Brewers.
Bautista made a good play out there to turn Hosmer's would be double into a single . . . but Cain scored anyway. Dang.
also, i didn't know baseball fever was still a thing! there was some useful stuff on that board, once upon a time. (maybe still)
If Bautista had thrown toward the cutoff man on the first base line, rather than go to second with it, Cain likely isn't sent.
Hosmer also had to sell like he was going to second. Anyway, great play, great run. LoCain was awesome.
Project Proposal - The BBF Ranking Game
Here's the current thread:
BBF Ranking Game - Election #106 - Voting
And a spinoff project:
BBF Ranking Game v2.0 – Election No. 12 – Vote for 4
It would be fun to do the Ranking Game here at BBTF, especially with the MMP Project having recently wrapped. The game runs itself, it just needs a moderator to start each thread and tally the voting results.
Amazing on defense, in the sense that you would literally be amazed once every week or two by some of the catches he made.
He's not knocking on the door to the HOF or anything, but there are very few teams in history that wouldn't have a spot for peak Lorenzo Cain.
:)
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