In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Canseco and the second or maternal family name is Capas.
Baseball player
Jose Canseco
Canseco in 2009
Outfielder / Designated hitter
Born: (1964-07-02) July 2, 1964 (age 59) Havana, Cuba
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 2, 1985, for the Oakland Athletics
Last MLB appearance
October 6, 2001, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average
.266
Home runs
462
Runs batted in
1,407
Teams
Oakland Athletics (1985–1992)
Texas Rangers (1992–1994)
Boston Red Sox (1995–1996)
Oakland Athletics (1997)
Toronto Blue Jays (1998)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1999–2000)
New York Yankees (2000)
Chicago White Sox (2001)
Career highlights and awards
6× All-Star (1986, 1988–1990, 1992, 1999)
2× World Series champion (1989, 2000)
AL MVP (1988)
AL Rookie of the Year (1986)
4× Silver Slugger Award (1988, 1990, 1991, 1998)
2× MLB home run leader (1988, 1991)
MLB RBI leader (1988)
José Canseco Capas Jr. (born July 2, 1964)[1] is a Cuban-American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). During his time with the Oakland Athletics, he established himself as one of the premier power hitters in the game. He won the Rookie of the Year (1986), and Most Valuable Player award (1988), and was a six-time All-Star. Canseco is a two-time World Series champion with the Oakland Athletics (1989) and the New York Yankees (2000).
In 1988, Canseco became the first player in MLB history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in one season. He won the Silver Slugger Award four times: three as an American League (AL) outfielder (1988, 1990, 1991), and once as a designated hitter (1998). He ranks fourth all time in Athletics history with 254 home runs and is one of 14 players in MLB history with 400 home runs and 200 stolen bases. Despite many injuries during the later part of his career, Canseco averaged 40 home runs, 120 runs batted in, and 102 runs scored every 162 games, playing a total of 1,887 games in 17 seasons with seven different teams. His 462 career home runs are the 12th-highest total in AL history and the 2nd most in MLB history for a player with less than 2000 games played.
Canseco admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during his major-league playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he said that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids. After retiring from MLB, he also competed in boxing and mixed martial arts.
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