Robinson Cano The Rise Of An All-Star

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Robinson Cano has sparkled with his glove and slammed his way into serious numbers as a New York Yankee. He is in his 5th season as a Yankee and he has 821 career hits at the Major League level already which has not been mentioned.

2005 - He hit .297 14 home runs 62 RBI with 155 hits in 522 at bats. As a rookie you are expected to make errors as he made 17 but improved as the season went on. In his first season as a Bronx Bomber Robbie Cano did heavy damage as a rookie standing alone as the starting second basemen for years to come.

In his first playoff series as a Yankee they failed to beat the Angels in the best of 5 series but Cano went 5 for 19 with 5 RBI batting .263 in his first playoff stint.

2006- Cano hit an awesome .342 with 15 home runs 78 rbi and 165 hits in 482 at bats climbing up the hit charts giving the American League batting title a run for his money.

He improved with his glove as he only made 9 errors with 230 putouts in 1009.0 innings. He came back from being hurt that season and never looked back as the Yankees made the playoffs again to take on the Detroit Tigers in another best of 5 playoff series for the American League Division championship.

Cano and the Yankees would run into unstoppable pitching as the Tigers seemed to get hotter as the swirling winds of October began to take its course on the Yankees. Cano failed to come through as anyone else in that series with the exception of Jorge Posada and Derek Jeter.

2007- Robinson came back with hard work trying to redeem him after a heartbreaking playoff series. He made 13 errors but had had 320 putouts as he played in a lot more games than he did in his previous years.

He hit .306 with 189 hits in 617 at bats. The thing that he improved in that season was his power numbers exploded with 19 home runs and 97 runs batted in hitting late in the lineup. The Yankees dropped another Division series to the Cleveland Indians but Cano had a smoking .333 average as he was 5 for 15 with 2 home runs and 3 RBI.

2008- It would be fair to say that with Mike Mussina winning 20 games there was really nothing to build on for the Yankees. It was not Cano's fault his average went down with a .271 average with 14 home runs and 72 RBI. He still had 165 hits in 597 at bats proving he was still a great hitter.

The Yankees did not make the playoffs that season as they waved farewell to the old Yankee Stadium as we will all know it.

2009- During this current season going into today Robinson Cano has been on a hot streak batting .319 with 18 home runs and 60 RBI loving the new Yankee Stadium. On pace to do big things in career hits he has 150 his in 470 at bats with over a month and 16 days to go in the regular season.

He has only 5 errors with 231 putouts in 1034.1 innings mastering second base. The Yankees are in first place and Cano thrives as a star every game watch out there could be batting titles and gold gloves for the 26 year old.