Plenty of eyebrows were raised around Milwaukee when the Brewers inked Lorenzo Cain to a five-year, $80 mil contract this past January, the largest free agent deal in franchise history. The former All-Star was about to (and has since) turn 32 years old, and the outfield was considered an area of strength coming into the offseason. Some opined that the money would have been better spent addressing what, on paper, looked like a weak starting rotation rather than investing in Cain.
While it’s still too early to draw any conclusions about the deal one way or another, Cain is certainly doing his part to begin proving that David Stearns made the right call to sign him.