Lorenzo Cain was born in the year 1986 and he is professional baseball center fielder player who plays in Kansas City Royals under Major League Baseball. He was drafted in Milwaukee Brewers at 17th round for 2004 MLB draft in Tallahassee Community College of Florida. In the year 2010, Cain made the debut of MLB and he followed the season and Brewers traded him to join Kansas City with other three players for the pitcher Zack Greinke.
After four years, he was placed to be at top 10 in the American League in the Batting average and for stolen bases. He is known for the defensive acrobatic and he won two Wilson defensive player of the year for the outfielders and for Fielding Bible Award. Afterwards, he won the 2014 American League Championship series to be most valuable player award because of the defensive play.
The father of Lorenzo Cain died when he was four years old and the mother Patricia continued to raise him with his brother while working in the printing of Madison or FL. Besides the professional ballplayer, he did not play the baseball until the time that he was in the sophomore years at Florida of Madison County High School. He says that he did that because none choose him to join the basketball team. At that time, he did not have even the baseball glove. Cain did finish as a third in voting of the 2015 American League Most Valuable Player and he finished after Josh Donaldson and of Mike Trout.
For the minor leagues, Lorenzo Cain was drafted to Join Milwaukee Brewers. He started the career in the year 2005, when he was playing for the Rookie League called Helena Brewers and for AZL Brewers. In the year 2006, he was promoted to join the Class A West Virginia Power and he was named for South Atlantic League for the post and mid season All-Star Teams. Cain was promoted to the Class A-Advanced Brevard County Manatees in the year 2007. Starting 2008 Season of Brevard County, he was called up to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds from June 10 to replace outfielder Hernan Iribarren and he was called to join Milwaukee.
Lorenzo Cain joined Brewers at the time that Pitcher Doug Davis was put at the list of the disabled. He made the major league debut against Atlanta Braves and also as a pinch-hitter. He was robbed the hit for the first time because of diving the catch under Braves and he left fielder called Matt Diaz.
From his biography, Lorenzo Cain is married and his wife is called Jenny. They have two sons and they are Cameron with Jayden. He had a contract of 2 years with his team and there was no arbitration. He gets a salary of 6.5 million per year. He has suffered the leg injury sometime back.
Net Worth 2021: | 19 million |