The New York Yankees will have a busy offseason, but the pending free agency of Robinson Cano will get the most headlines.
"We'd love to have Robbie back," Brian Cashman said on Tuesday. "There's not much more for me to say about that. But our intention is to have him back – if we can. We will receive, or has received, a significant offer to stay. So he'll have something legitimately to ponder. We'll have to, again, play that one out, as well. See where it takes us.
"He's been a great Yankee. I think if stays he has a legitimate chance to experience what you just saw a little bit from Mariano [Rivera]. Where maybe he has a chance to be the first Dominican-born player to be in Monument Park. A homegrown Yankee. But at the same time, it's a business. He has comported himself in a tremendous way, both on and off the field, with the New York Yankees. And we've been extremely happy to have him.
"We hope to extend that relationship. But we have a process to still go to on that. And he will certainly be in a position to entertain offers from other clubs. We'll let him go through that process."
Cano hit .314/.383/.516 with 27 home runs and 107 RBIs in 2013.