Sunday, January 25, 2009
LoHud.com: Winter has been busy for Yankees’ Cano
To ensure he fares better - and starts stronger - in 2009, Cano spent the winter hard at work in the Dominican Republic. He dropped his weight 5 pounds exercising with a trainer and spent a week tweaking his stance with hitting coach Kevin Long.
“I take last year as an experience,” Cano said last night at the Hillside Food Outreach program charity dinner at Greentree Country Club. “It’s motivation for me, knowing that I have to start in April, not in June.”
Cano said he hasn’t talked to members of the coaching staff or front office aside from Long, but he hasn’t necessarily needed a talking to. He knows the club and its fans were disappointed with his play. Swirling trade rumors are a sobering reminder.
“I hear a lot of rumors, but I never pay much attention,” Cano said. “Every year they say I’m going to be traded. If it happened, I have to keep playing.”
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