Jose Canseco

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 240 lb

BornJuly 2, 1964 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1985

Final gameOctober 6, 2001

Seasons17 (1985–2001)

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; New York Yankees 2000; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2000; Chicago White Sox 2001

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified batters

113

502

0.6

430

1.3

28.7

120

3.8

3.2

15.3

81.5

RBI

58.6

50.3

135

6.4

92.4

.279

OBP

.369

58.6

SLG

.563

88.5

OPS

.931

wRC+

130.4

75.8

OPS+

132.8

wOBA

.397

75.8

sWAR

2.4

45.9

of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

129.9

90.3

OPS+

132.2

91.9

sWAR

43.0

98.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	29	100	96	16	29	3	0	5	13	4	31	1	1	.302	.330	.490	.820	127.9	127.9	.360	0.5
1986	157	682	600	85	144	29	1	33	117	65	175	15	7	.240	.318	.457	.775	113.8	114.9	.341	2.6
1987	159	691	630	81	162	35	3	31	113	50	157	15	3	.257	.310	.470	.780	107.1	109.6	.335	2.0
1988	158	705	610	120	187	34	0	42	124	78	128	40	16	.307	.391	.569	.959	169.7	171.9	.420	7.4
1989	65	258	227	40	61	9	1	17	57	23	69	6	3	.269	.333	.542	.875	141.9	149.4	.380	1.8
1990	131	563	481	83	132	14	2	37	101	72	158	19	10	.274	.371	.543	.914	157.0	159.5	.403	4.8
1991	154	665	572	115	152	32	1	44	122	78	152	26	6	.266	.359	.556	.915	153.6	157.2	.400	5.6
1992	119	512	439	74	107	15	0	26	87	63	128	6	7	.244	.344	.456	.799	129.0	127.7	.365	2.7
1993	60	253	231	30	59	14	1	10	46	16	62	6	6	.255	.308	.455	.763	102.5	106.1	.336	0.4
1994	111	505	429	88	121	19	2	31	90	69	114	15	8	.282	.386	.552	.939	138.0	140.5	.404	2.8
1995	102	450	396	64	121	25	1	24	81	42	93	4	0	.306	.378	.556	.933	135.2	136.9	.403	2.3
1996	96	432	360	68	104	22	1	28	82	63	82	3	1	.289	.400	.589	.989	144.0	144.8	.424	2.8
1997	108	446	388	56	91	19	0	23	74	51	122	8	2	.235	.325	.461	.786	103.8	103.8	.345	0.8
1998	151	658	583	98	138	26	0	46	107	65	159	29	17	.237	.318	.518	.836	110.5	113.6	.356	1.8
1999	113	502	430	75	120	18	1	34	95	58	135	3	0	.279	.369	.563	.931	130.4	132.8	.397	2.4
2000	98	401	329	47	83	18	0	15	49	64	102	2	0	.252	.377	.444	.820	112.3	109.5	.366	1.0
2001	76	306	256	46	66	8	0	16	49	45	75	2	1	.258	.366	.477	.843	119.4	117.1	.368	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1993	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	0	0	1.0	27.00	5.000	0.00	12.00	285.7	15.6	0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,887

340th-most career G

8,129

275th-most career PA

7,057

298th-most career AB

1,186

201st-most career R

1,877

364th-most career H

340

345th-most career 2B

462

38th-most career HR

RBI

1,407

76th-most career RBI

906

179th-most career BB

1,942

11th-most career SO

200

367th-most career SB

.2660

OBP

.3527

SLG

.5145

83rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8672

133rd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

27.000

WHIP

5.0000

K/9

0.00

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1994-06-13	SEA @ TEX Gameday	6	3	5	3	8	0	14
1988-07-03	ATH @ TOR Gameday	7	3	3	3	6	1	12
1989-08-29	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6	4	4	2	5	0	10
1990-08-02	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	2	5	0	10
1999-06-14	TB @ CWS Gameday	4	2	4	2	4	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1993-05-29	TEX @ BOS Gameday	1.0	2	3	3	3	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

4× Silver Slugger1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.