{"id":34405,"date":"2022-06-03T00:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/san-diego-padres-send-down-struggling-robinson-cano-who-opts-to-become-a-free-agent\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T00:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:58:23","slug":"san-diego-padres-send-down-struggling-robinson-cano-who-opts-to-become-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/san-diego-padres-send-down-struggling-robinson-cano-who-opts-to-become-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres send down struggling Robinson Cano, who opts to become a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The San Diego Padres optioned struggling infielder Robinson Cano to Triple-A El Paso on Thursday and the veteran instead opted to become a free agent, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres signed the eight-time All-Star to a deal May 13 after he was designated for assignment by the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>In 12 games with San Diego, Cano was 3-for-33 (.091) with no home runs and one RBI.  The 39-year-old struck out 10 times and walked once.<\/p>\n<p>Cano batted .195 (8-for-41) with one home run, three RBIs in 12 games for the National League East-leading Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Cano sat out last season while serving his second suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.  He has a .301 career batting average with 2,635 hits, 335 home runs and 1,306 RBIs in 17 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, San Diego selected veteran outfielder Nomar Mazara from El Paso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres optioned struggling infielder Robinson Cano to Triple-A El Paso on Thursday and the veteran instead opted to become a free agent, the team said. The Padres signed the eight-time All-Star to a deal May 13 after he was designated for assignment by the New York Mets. In 12 games with San &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/san-diego-padres-send-down-struggling-robinson-cano-who-opts-to-become-a-free-agent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">San Diego Padres send down struggling Robinson Cano, who opts to become a free agent<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[236,146,4895,1829],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0602\/r1020718_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}