Robinson José Canó (; born October 22, 1982) is a Dominican professional baseball second baseman for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees on May 3, 2005, and was a member of their 2009 World Series winning team over the Philadelphia Phillies. Canó is an eight-time MLB All-Star, five-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and two-time Gold Glove Award winner. He has represented the Dominican Republic in international play, including winning both the gold medal and Most Valuable Player Award of the 2013 World Baseball Classic tournament. His career has been met with controversy after he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs on several occasions.
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Robinson José Canó (; born October 22, 1982) is a Dominican professional baseball second baseman for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees on May 3, 2005, and was a member of their 2009 World Series winning team over the Philadelphia Phillies. Canó is an eight-time MLB All-Star, five-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and two-time Gold Glove Award winner. He has represented the Dominican Republic in international play, including winning both the gold medal and Most Valuable Player Award of the 2013 World Baseball Classic tournament. In December 2013, Canó signed a 10-year, USD 240 million USD deal with the Seattle Mariners. He was later traded to the Mets after the 2018 season. His career has been met with controversy after he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs on several occasions. In 2018, he was first suspended for 80 games for violating Major League baseball’s joint drug agreement for his use of furosemide. On November 18, 2020, Cano was suspended a second time for the entire 2021 season after testing positive for stanozolol. Robinson was named after baseball legend Jackie Robinson. He grew up in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, though he lived in New Jersey for three years. After graduating from high school, canó was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent on January 5, 2001. He began playing in their minor league system that season, debuting with the Gulf Coast Yankees of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League and the Staten Island Yankees.
He played for Staten Island and the Greensboro Bats of the Class-A South Atlantic League in 2002. In the Dominican Winter Baseball League he plays for his hometown team, the Estrellas Orientales. He appeared in the 2003 All-Stars Futures Game and was one of the five prospects offered to the Texas Rangers to complete the Yankees’ acquisition of Alex Rodriguez before the 2004 season. In 2005, Joe Torre compared Canó to Hall of Famer Rod Carew, but later clarified that he meant that Canó build him in terms of terms of his terms of the American League. He recorded 1,695 base hits during the 2010s, the most of any major league player. He is one of four players to have won both a World Series and World baseball Classic. He also played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, where he got his first career base hit off of Hideo Nomo. He finished second in American League Rookie of the Year balloting to Huston Street of the Oakland Athletics. In 2007, he played in the All-star Futures game and was called up to the Columbus Clippers from Tony Womack, and took over second base for the Columbus, and Columbus was called over for the 2007 World Series. In 2008, he moved to third base in an effort to showcase Canó for the Kansas City Royals. The next month, the Yankees attempted to trade him to the Arizona Diamondbacks as part of a package to acquire Randy Johnson.
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