BRADENTON, Fla. — Starlin Castro wears No. 14 on his back, but there are times when you’d swear he should be wearing No. 24 — Robinson Cano’s old number.
Castro made a play in the third inning of Wednesday night’s exhibition game at Steinbrenner Field that was pure Cano when he raced after a pop-up in short rightfield and made an effortless-looking over-the-shoulder catch.
A half-inning earlier, Castro hit an opposite-field two-run home run to right-centerfield, his first homer of a superb spring training at the plate. He hit his second — a prodigious wallop over the batter’s eye in centerfield — in Thursday’s 7-2 victory over the Pirates at McKechnie Field.