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Things looked grim, then took a turn for the impossible, and suddenly, imperfectly, it was real. The departure of Robinson Canó from the Seattle Mariners feels eerily poetic to his arrival. It just didn’t fully sink in – didn’t feel real – until now, after days of hemming and hawing, finally.