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Brian Cashman and the Yankees aren’t sitting around waiting on Robinson Cano.
A sizable gap remains between the Yankees and Robinson Cano, but that didn’t stop the Bombers from taking care of other business on Monday.
Cano and the Yankees remained “oceans apart,” according to a major-league official familiar with the talks, leaving the two sides at an impasse. No further talks had been scheduled as the official said, “There’s nothing to talk about.”
While Cano and the Yankees are locked in stalemate regarding a new contract, the club continued to work aggressively on bringing in other free agents.
“We’ll stay engaged with him,” general manager Brian Cashman said of Cano. “But we seem to be more engaged with others right now.”
Chris Stewart was traded to the Pirates for a player to be named later, a move that came as no surprise after the Yankees signed catcher Brian McCann to a five-year, $ 85 million pact last week.
Cashman said last month that he expected to tender a contract to Francisco Cervelli, leaving Stewart as a non-tender or trade candidate. Cashman said McCann had passed his physical, paving the way for a Yankee Stadium press conference before the end of the week.
The Yankees also tendered contracts to five of their six arbitration-eligible players before Monday night’s midnight deadline: Dave Robertson, Brett Gardner, Ivan Nova, Shawn Kelley and Cervelli. Only infielder Jayson Nix was non-tendered among arbitration-eligible players, though the Yankees also non-tendered infielder David Adams and reliever Matt Daley.
Cano’s camp is seeking a nine-year deal worth $ 260 million with a vesting option that could bring the contract’s total value to $ 288 million. Randy Levine and Hal Steinbrenner have maintained all along that they have no plans to give any player a 10-year contract or spend $ 300 million.
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Could Cano be on the move? Negotiations stall as the two sides are still very far apart.
Asked whether he believed the Yankees and Cano would come to a compromise, Cashman seemed uncertain.
“I can’t predict,” Cashman said. “I know we’ve sincerely wanted to have him and would like to have him. But again, he’s in a position where he’s going to have opportunities and choices and it could be for more money, it could be for less money, particular teams. That’s true of any free agent. They can control their destiny, prioritize what’s most important to them.”
The Yankees had originally offered Cano a seven-year, $ 160 million deal, though they are believed to have raised that offer to approximately $ 170 million.
“We’ve had an amazing run with Robbie Cano, we’d like it to extend, but there’s no guarantee it will,” Cashman said. “We’ve had offers out there and I’ve made offers to multiple other players and we have only so much we’re going to spend in the marketplace. We are going to focus on those who gravitate closer to us and try to get a deal done with us and we certainly hope Robbie is a part of that process, too.”
Carlos Beltran remains their top outfield target, though Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo are also viable options. A source said none of the outfielders — you can throw Nelson Cruz into that mix as well, though the Yankees haven’t shown as much interest in him — will sign before next week’s winter meetings, creating the potential for a flurry of activity in Orlando.
The Yankees are also awaiting an answer from Hiroki Kuroda about his future as the 38-year-old ponders his future. Despite a published report Monday that the Yankees made Kuroda a new offer, a source said the team’s offer to the pitcher was made “a long time ago,” but the Yankees never expected to hear from the righthander until early-to-mid December.
“We’d love to have Hiroki Kuroda back,” Cashman said. “We need starting pitching, he’s been tremendous for us and we’d like that to continue. … We’ve made Hiroki Kuroda an offer and we’re waiting to hear from him if he’d like to come back.”
Cashman said Kuroda’s agent has told him the pitcher “would like to stay here and pitch and that’s his preference,’ but until he actually re-signs with the Yankees, nothing is a given.
The Yankees made another minor move Monday, reportedly signing infielder Russ Canzler. The 27-year-old spent parts of 2011 and ’12 with the Rays and Indians, playing in the Orioles’ and Pirates’ minor-league systems last season. The Yankees claimed Canzler off waivers from the Indians last Jan. 5, only to lose him when Baltimore claimed him off waivers a month later.
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