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Improving Cano is motivated by criticism

Jim Baumbach

Newsday columnist Jim Baumbach

Jim Baumbach, formerly Newsday's Yankees beat reporter, is now a

Robinson Cano has heard himself described as lazy, probably more times than he cares to remember.

But never did that word bother him as much as it did last year.

On the road to far and away his worst season in the majors, which was on the heels of his first big payday, Cano revealed Saturday that even opponents took shots at him.

Even they saw him as lazy.

Cano mentioned...

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