José Canseco
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| Born: July 2, 1964 in Havana , Cuba 
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| Strikes: Right | Throws: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| September 2, 1985 for the Oakland Athletics | |
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| October 6, 2001 with the Chicago White Sox | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 266 |
| Home runs | 462 |
| Runs batted in | 1.407 |
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José Canseco Capas, Jr. (born July 2, 1964 in Havana , Cuba ) is a retired baseball player . He was mostly used as an outfielder , later as a designated hitter . In the course of his career in American major league baseball , he played for a total of seven teams. He achieved his greatest success in 1989 when he with the Oakland Athletics , the World Series won.
Canseco made his debut in the final stages of the 1985 season for the Athletics. In 1986 he was named Rookie of the Year and in 1988 Most Valuable Player . Together with Mark McGwire , Canseco formed one of the most successful offensives in the Major League in the second half of the 1980s. From 1988 to 1990, the A's reached the World Series three times in a row , with Canseco and his team winning the title in 1989 . In 1988 and 1990 the series was lost.
In 1992, Canseco was given to the Texas Rangers in exchange for three other players . His stats as a batsman remained good overall, but he often had to contend with injuries, which led to several club changes. He had his only injury-free season since leaving Oakland in 1998 with the Toronto Blue Jays , in which year he set a personal record with 46 home runs .
After the 2001 season ended Cansecos career in the MLB, but he was active until 2006 in smaller baseball associations. In 2005 he admitted the prohibited use of steroids to improve performance. Canseco published the book Juiced , in which he also accused numerous former teammates of doping .
Canseco is ranked 32nd on the all-time leaderboard with a total of 462 home runs that he hit over the course of his career. He was awarded the Silver Slugger Award four times as the best offensive player in his position (1988, 1990-1991, 1998).
After his baseball career, he tried martial arts. At the MMA event DREAM 9 he lost his fight against the Korean Choi Hong-man by TKO in the first round.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from MLB or Baseball Reference or Fangraphs or The Baseball Cube or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ When cleaning guns: Ex-baseball star José Canseco shoots himself in the hand www.spiegel.de October 29, 2014
- ↑ http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/historical/leaders.jsp?c_id=mlb&baseballScope=mlb&statType=1&sortByStat=HR&timeFrame=3&timeSubFrame2=0
- ↑ [1]
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| SURNAME | Canseco, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canseco Capas, José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |