OAKLAND, Calif. — Robinson Cano didn’t pause from his answer when he saw the familiar faces walk into the cramped room of the Oakland Coliseum. But when he finished, he broke into that wide familiar grin.
All of the Mariners’ position players had assembled behind the media there for Cano’s pregame press conference on the day he was reinstated from an 80-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s joint drug testing policy. The sound of large humans moving in a pack and some of them taking seats in old folding chairs interrupted the quiet of the room as Cano spoke.