Fantasy Profile: Lorenzo Cain, OF, Kansas City Royals

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FANTASY PROFILE: Lorenzo Cain, OF, Kansas City Royals

LWOS Ranking: 49, Captain’s Value: $7.84

Lorenzo Cain enters 2015 coming off of perhaps his best fantasy season of his career. For the most part, Cain has been limited by health over the past 3 seasons and has yet to accumulate more than 500 ABs in a given year.  In 2014, he managed to see 471 AB which was his career high. This enabled him to have the opportunity to pile up 28 SB, while hitting for a .301 AVG.  Many fantasy owners may complain that he did not produce across the other counting stats with only 55 R, 53 RBI, and 7 HRs.

The Royals plan to utilize Cain in 2015 as the everyday CF, which if he can stay healthy, will lead to more AB and likely more counting stats.  Although Cain’s average was very strong in 2014 both his contact rate (77%) and his walk rate (4.8%) was very low which may mean we see a regression in 2015. However, one thing to take into consideration is that players with Cain’s speed have a tendency beat out more throws to first base than most players, which could help him repeat his production.

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