During his first year away from home, toiling for Tallahassee Community College the year after Milwaukee chose him in the 17th round of the 2004 draft, Lorenzo Cain developed a nightly routine. He felt homesick and lonely, and sought an outlet.
He would return to the dorm room he shared with two teammates, crack open his laptop and search for highlights of the only baseball player he admired. Cain never studied the game in his youth, never even played until his sophomore year of high school. But in Torii Hunter, he saw a man worth emulating.
“Late at night, nothing going on,” Cain said.