ANAHEIM -- Royals center fielder Lorenzo Cain had just completed a vigorous weight-lifting session when he walked over to his locker and semi-collapsed on his chair, exhausted.
"Guess I'll grab some bench here, too," Cain said, laughing, knowing he wasn't in the starting lineup for the first time in 2016 on Wednesday night against the Angels.
Manager Ned Yost decided to give Cain a break as he tries to reboot his system in the midst of a 5-for-33 slump. Cain has zero extra-base hits in that span.
"This feels like the worst slump of my career," Cain said.