{"id":33892,"date":"2013-12-06T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33892"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:55:35","slug":"cano-granderson-leaving-yanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33892","title":{"rendered":"Cano, Granderson Leaving Yanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/grandersoncurtis1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33900\" alt=\"grandersoncurtis\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/grandersoncurtis1-263x300.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A person familiar with the situation says free-agent outfielder Curtis Granderson and the New York Mets have agreed to a $60 million, four-year contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the deal was pending a physical and no announcement had been made.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The agreement was first reported by the New York Post.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 32-year-old Granderson comes over from the crosstown Yankees, giving the Mets much-needed power in their punchless outfield. He batted .229 with seven homers and 15 RBIs this year, when injuries limited him to 61 games. But he surpassed 40 homers in each of the previous two seasons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The move marks general manager Sandy Alderson&#8217;s most expensive free-agent signing &#8211; by far &#8211; after three years of bargain shopping as the Mets were rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today reports&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/canorobinson.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33894\" alt=\"canorobinson\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/canorobinson.bmp\" \/><\/a>Robinson Cano is headed to the Seattle Mariners, agreeing to terms on a 10-year, $240 million contract, according to a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement comes just hours after talks between Cano, his representative Jay-Z, and the Mariners broke down when the hip-hop mogul asked for a 10th year from the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>But cooler heads apparently prevailed and the sides found common ground, as the pact represents Jay-Z&#8217;s first major transaction as a sports agent.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t do too badly: Cano&#8217;s deal equals Albert Pujols&#8217; as the third-largest in baseball history, behind only the two contracts Alex Rodriguez signed with the Texas Rangers (in 2000) and the Yankees (after the 2007 season).<\/p>\n<p>Cano&#8217;s agreement with the Mariners was first reported by ESPN Deportes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; A person familiar with the situation says free-agent outfielder Curtis Granderson and the New York Mets have agreed to a $60 million, four-year contract. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the deal was pending a physical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33902,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892\/revisions\/33902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}