A Coda For Cano

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Ask any baseball fan, and they’ll tell you lefties look better swinging a bat. Maybe it’s because they have a split-second longer to recognize a pitch thrown by a righty, or because they don’t have to twist awkwardly to run toward first afterwards. Then again, as the Washington Post once noted, “We may never ever really know why it’s so beautiful. It just is, okay?”

Back in 2013, the sweetest-swinging lefty on the New Yo...