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NextImg:Robinson Cano joining Mexican League team — and will face off against Yankees

Robinson Cano has a new team — and will get to play one of his old ones, too.

The ex-Yankees and Mets second baseman is joining the Diablos Rojos of the Mexican Baseball League, the team announced Friday afternoon.

The team posted on X about the news, adding a montage of highlights of his 17-year MLB career.

Terms of the deal were not clear.

Robinson Cano is joining a Mexican Baseball League team for this season. Anthony J. Causi

Cano, 41, will actually get the chance to play his old Bronx Bombers on March 24 and 25 when the Yankees come to Mexico City for an exhibition series.

The eight-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger winner came up with the Yankees and reached his peak with the club, hitting .309/.355/.504 in nine seasons in The Bronx, helping the team to a World Series title in 2009.

Cano departed the Yankees before the 2014 season when he signed a 10-year megadeal with the Mariners, though halfway through the contract, he ended up back in New York with the Mets in time for the 2019 campaign.

The second baseman — who had been suspended 80 games for violating MLB’s performance-enhancing drugs policy in 2018 — was part of the package that sent him and closer Edwin Diaz to Queens in the trade that shipped then-top prospect Jarred Kelenic to Seattle.

New York Mets’ Robinson Cano, right, hugs Francisco Lindor, left, after hitting a solo home run off Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Zach Davies in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Friday, April 15, 2022, in New York. AP

He largely struggled with the Mets, posting a .765 OPS in 168 games, and he was suspended the entire 2021 season for testing positive for Stanozolol.

In a 2022 return, Cano couldn’t get things going, hitting .195 over 12 games before he was cut in May.

“Ultimately, we came to the point where it was Robbie because we weren’t going to have the plate appearances as we want to allocate them around and kind of utilize the whole bench,” then-general manager Billy Eppler said as reported by The Post’s Greg Joyce. “It was going to be a little irregular.”

Cano played for both the Mets and Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

He played in games with both the Padres and Braves to end that season, but didn’t find any more success in either stop before he got his at least from Atlanta in August.

He has not played in the big leagues since.

However, Cano became part ownership group of the Dubai-based professional baseball league, Baseball United, in September and was selected sixth overall in its inaugural draft.

He recorded two hits in the league’s showcase — that also featured ex-Met and Yankee Bartolo Colon — at the end of last year.

Cano also played for the Dominican Republic’s World Baseball Classic squad last year and has suited up for winter ball in his home country the last two years.

Now, Cano gets another crack at pro baseball in North America.