Peter Abraham has a nice article on the relationship that Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano have. Cano has been Jeter's double play partner more times than any other second baseman.

"I have to be one of the blessed guys in the world," Cano said. "You look at second basemen in Boston or Kansas City or other teams and they don't have a guy like Jeter next to them or a first baseman as good as Teixeira. A-Rod, he's always talking to me. I look around and I can't believe it." ...

"There have always been rumors or talk, that's New York," Cano said [about claims of indifference or laziness]. "Jeter always would come up to me and talk to me and tell me to ignore it. When people said I was lazy, he came up to me and said, ‘I know you're not lazy.' That meant a lot to me."