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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 111: Robinson Cano on Yoan Moncada: ”I think he’ll be a superstar”

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

With the Mariners in town to play the White Sox, Chuck Garfien had a conversation with Robinson Cano to talk about the player who idolizes him, Yoan Moncada.Cano spoke about Moncada's potential, why he thinks he'll be a superstar, the importance of having good mentors in the game, Moncada's strikeouts, the challenges of being a switch-hitter and much more.

Transcript

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0:29.1

Since being called up to the major leagues, Joan Moncada has been compared to Robinson

0:34.6

Canoe. They played the same position. They have the same swing. In fact,

0:39.3

Mankata's all-time favorite player is Kano. He even named his son after him, Robinson Mankata.

0:47.3

And with the Mariners in town, I had a conversation with Robinson, Kano, about Yohan Mankata and Robinson says

0:55.8

among other things that he believes that Mankata is going to be a superstar in

1:00.0

this game they did not meet by the way until the first game of this series on

1:05.4

Monday had never met and never been on the same field with each other not even

1:09.8

in spring training so we talked about a lot of things.

1:13.6

Robinson was named after Jackie Robinson, so having someone like Yoan look up to him like that.

1:21.6

It was very humbling to say the least for Robinson, so he spoke about that as well as

1:26.6

Yoan's potential acclimating to the

1:30.2

United States, the importance of having a mentor, a baseball mentor. Robinson had some big ones in

1:37.2

New York. We talked about Yohan's strikeouts. Who hits the ball harder? Robinson or Yohan and a whole lot more.

1:45.0

So here's my conversation with Robinson Kanoe on the White Sox Talk Podcast.

1:50.0

Well, Robinson, you have a big fan in that other dugout as in Yohan Moncada.

2:01.6

He says you're his favorite player, even named his son after you.

2:06.6

How flattering is it to have someone like Yohan Mancada think so highly of you?

2:11.6

Well, in a humble way, it's something that I've been named after Jackie. So it's kind of like for me, being the guy named after somebody,

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