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‘I want to earn every penny’: Halfway through, Robinson Cano reflects on his franchise-record contract

The notion of a player in his 30s signing for a decade has quickly grown antiquated. "I don’t want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good and then they don’t care. I do care," Cano says.

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Robinson Cano was 31 years old when he left the Yankees for a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Seattle Mariners in December 2013. The landscape for veteran free agents has changed plenty since then.

Cano is the last free agent to get a 10-year contract.