Third Base-Cano?

[BuckFoston]

General manager Brian Cashman said on Thursday that he would consider moving Robinson Cano from second to third base should the search for Alex Rodriguez's successor prove fruitless through free agency. The two spoke directly about the subject when Cano visited Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

"I was playful with him, but I informed him that I know he can play third base," Cashman said. "I know it. I'm not saying that he's going to, but I know he can do it."

Cashman's conversation with Cano was lighthearted, and he repeatedly expressed his desire to keep Cano at second if at all possible. But it was a conversation, nonetheless.

Cashman joked that if Cano wants to keep his spot at second -- and he stated earlier this week that he does -- then he should encourage countryman Wilson Betemit to train into peak shape this winter. Right now, Betemit is tops on the depth chart at third base, though that could certainly change.

And Cano certainly has incentive to keep his name off the list.

"I feel so comfortable at second base that right now I don't want to play third base," Cano told Sirius Satellite Radio on Monday. "That's something that I don't want to do."

All the speculation would become moot if the Yankees can find a suitable replacement through free agency. Yet the problem remains that this year's market doesn't hold a glut of capable offensive third basemen.

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If the man doesn't want to play third don't make him. Leave him at second, a player won't succeed if he has to be put somewhere he doesn't want to be. Leave him and second and go pick up Lowell.

[browntown653]

Not gonna happen. Cano is staying right at second base and I doubt he will move for a long time, if ever from that position.

[Veovis]

Still... easier to find a 2B than it is to find a 3B.

[Dry1313]

It was lighthearted.

Not happening.