Kat O'Brien spoke with Robinson Cano, who had admitted to working with Angel Presinal during the 2007-2008 offseason. He also says that he'd work with him again.

"To tell you the truth, I don't care about what happened with him in the past," Cano said. "I would say I know what I've got to do, and I know that he can help me." ...

Cano said he didn't worry about the risk of being tainted as "guilty by association" because he knows he hasn't done anything wrong. He would not comment on whether Rodriguez is associated with Presinal but confirmed that he had seen Presinal around the team in the past couple of seasons -- not in any official capacity but in places such as the team hotel, at the gym or in restaurants in cities in which the Yankees were playing.

Wallace Matthews spoke with an unnamed Yankee official and Joe Girardi, on the subject of Presinal.

A Yankees official told me the club would love to prohibit its players from working with Presinal but fears that doing so would open it up to a defamation or loss-of-earnings lawsuit.

"You always worry about the character of the people around your players, always," Girardi said. "But I'm not sure how much power I really have in that area."

Via Ken Davidoff.