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MLB's Sabermetric Era Turned Lorenzo Cain from Role Player into $80M Superstar

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 only 10 homers and 35 RBI, and his 26 steals are two off his career high of 28.