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PORT ST. LUCIE , Fla. (AP) —reporting to spring training.“I feel like I’m 25,” the 36-year-old All-Star second baseman said Sunday, a day ahead of the team’s first full-squad workout.Cano took a physical and held a news conference. He took over the spot in the clubhouse that used to belong to Mets captain David Wright, who retired because of neck and back injuries.“First of all, nobody’s going to replace David Wright,” Cano said. “David Wright is the organization. We all know what he did through the years. I feel special that I get to have his locker. This is a game that you play as a team. I’m going to go out and do my best and give it everything I’ve got, yes I will. But I don’t like to pressure myself and go out and be that guy.”Cano was acquired Dec. 3 from Seattle along with All-Star closer Edwin Diaz, the first big move made by new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen — Cano’s former agent.“He said he was going to go out and build a team that could go out and compete. He has a lot of good pieces, and this team looks really good,” Cano said.Cano hit .303 with 10 home runs and an .845 OPS last season, though he was banned for 80 games for violating baseball’s drug agreement. Cano tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic that can be used to mask performance-enhancing drugs.The eight-time All-Star is expected to be the regular second baseman, causing the Mets to shift 26-year-old Jeff McNeil to a utility role that could include time in left field. McNeil hit.329 in 63 games for the Mets last season.Cano has played 14 games at first base during his 14-year big league career.“I haven’t thought about that yet ,” Cano said of possible time at first.Having spent nine years in New York with the Yankees, Cano had some advice for the 24-year-old Diaz about playing in the Big Apple and tuning out media and talk-radio.“He’s a young kid. It’s different, especially when you come through the system with Seattle — you don’t deal with a lot of media,” Cano said. “I told him just to go out and don’t let the big city get into your head. Go out, compete, and have fun . knowing you’re human and not perfect. It’s the same game in a different city. Don’t focus on the city.”Cano left the Yankees after the 2013 to sign a $240 million, 10-year contract with the Mariners that pays $24 million annually. As part of the trade, Seattle sent the Mets $5 million on Dec. 21 and will send New York $3.75 million on Dec. 1 in each of the next four years.Cano wondered about the current free-agent market.“It’s hard when you, as a player, go out and put out the effort in the offseason and put up numbers, and you’re just waiting to be able to get a deal. You deserve a deal, you put up the numbers, you’re young and you have the talent and not able to get a deal. Baseball is going to a different direction right now because there are a lot of guys out there who don’t have a job.”Top players such as Bryce Harper and Manny Machado have not reached agreements.“I’m surprised. I would say every baseball player is in shock ,” Cano said. “Machado and Harper are young guys who’ve been in this league and put up numbers. Machado played in the World Series last year, Harper won an MVP before. I thought by this time they would already be signed.” DENVER (AP) — Ryan McMahon couldn’t hit a home run while working his way back from the injured list. He had no trouble going deep in his first game back in the lineup.McMahon homered twice and had five RBIs and Kyle Freeland pitched six scoreless innings as the Colorado Rockies beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 Thursday night.McMahon had the first multi-homer game of his career and finished with three hits as the Rockies snapped a five-game home losing streak. Colorado has won four in a row overall after dropping eight straight.McMahon had been out of the lineup since suffering a strained left elbow against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 5. He missed 10 games and was in Arizona in extended spring training to get his timing back, but didn’t find his power stroke in his rehab work.“I had no home runs down there,” he said. “Not even close, actually.”His two homers were no-doubters. The first one traveled 412 feet, and the second 416.“I felt good down (in Arizona) and wanted to carry that over,” he said.J.T. Realmuto homered and Cesar Hernandez had three hits for Philadelphia.Freeland (2-3), who left Saturday’s start in San Francisco with a blister issue, allowed just two hits and didn’t walk a batter to win his eighth game in his last nine decisions at Coors Field. He left after 85 pitches because the blister started forming on his finger again.“It’s fine. It started creeping on us, started building,” he said. “We decided it was best to not push it where something worse can happen.”He struck out seven but was headed for a no-decision when McMahon hit a three-run homer off Philadelphia starter Zach Eflin (2-2) in the bottom of the sixth to give the Rockies a 3-0 lead.It was the only real mistake Eflin made in his six innings.“I’m not disappointed with the way I pitched,” he said. “It was one moment.”Realmuto cut the lead to 3-2 in the top of the seventh with his third home run of the season, but McMahon blasted a low fastball from Victor Arano into the Rockies bullpen in the bottom of the inning to make it 6-2.“That would have been a ball if he took it , but he dug it out,” Colorado manager Buddy Black said. “We talk about homers, and most of the time they’re mistakes. The first one is a change-up in the middle of the plate and the second homer was a pretty good pitcher’s pitch.”Phillies manager Gabe Kapler thought the same thing.“I can’t fault Victor. It was a good pitch,” he said. “McMahon swung over the same pitch in the at-bat. He threw him a fastball and then came back with the pitch down and gave up the home run.”Tony Wolters had three hits and Nolan Arenado two for the Rockies.TRAINER’S ROOMPhillies: OF Odubel Herrera (right hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day injured list before the game and OF Roman Quinn was activated. Herrera left Wednesday’s game in the fifth inning after pulling up while chasing a fly ball against the New York Mets. … SS Jean Segura tested out his strained left hamstring before the game, but was not in the lineup.Rockies: OF David Dahl was activated from the 10-day injured list and was in the lineup Thursday. Dahl, who had been out since April 8 with a left core injury, doubled and scored a run. Colorado optioned OF Yonathan Daza and INF Josh Fuentes to Triple-A Albuquerque. … OF Ian Desmond (general leg soreness) was not in the starting lineup, but pinch-hit in the eighth inning. … An MRI confirmed C Chris Iannetta had a strained right lat. He was placed on the 10-day IL on Monday.COLD WELCOMEOutfielder Bryce Harper made his first trip to Denver since signing with the Phillies and he didn’t get a lot of love from the fans. He was booed in all four plate appearances and finished 0-for-3 with a walk.He shrugged off the crowd’s welcome.“I’m used to it. I get booed everywhere,” he said.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Vince Velasquez (0-0, 2.25) is scheduled to make his third start and fourth appearance of the season.Rockies: RHP German Marquez (2-1, 2.00) threw a one-hitter for his first career shutout in San Francisco on Sunday.

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