KANSAS CITY - On the morning of Dec. 19, 2010, Lorenzo Cain was sleeping peacefully when his mother shook him awake.
“I opened my eyes and she said, ‘I just saw on ESPN that you’ve been traded,’ ” Cain recalled on Tuesday on the eve of Game 1 of the 2015 World Series.
“I was very shocked.”
After five years in the Milwaukee Brewers’ minor-league system, Cain had made his major-league debut the previous July and had had a promising audition. In 43 games at the end of that 2010 season with the Brewers, he hit .