Cano’s time in the Dominican Republic playing for his hometown team, the Estrellas Orientales, doesn’t really qualify for as a tune up. It was more treating his countrymen with the gift of his presence on his trip back home.
Last year, Cano also played some winter league matches because he was testing a newly healed broken pinky toe.
Back then, his performance had some meaning to it, having broken his toe just two months earlier, the two hundred and forty million dollar man was looking to take a step in the direction of recovery for the 2016 season.