Jose Canseco

Who is Jose Canseco?

Jose Canseco, a Cuban-American baseball player, is one of the best players to play the game-winning Most Valuable Player Award in 1988 and part of six-time All-Star team. He started playing from 1985 with Oakland Athletics and ended his career in 2001 with Chicago White Sox.

Jose Canseco: Birthday, Family, Facts

Jose was born in Havana, Cuba on 2^nd July 1964. He is of Cuban nationality, and his birth sign is Cancer. Jose is the son Barbara Canseco and Jose Sr. and lived with them in Cuba from where they moved to Miami after his father lost his job. He shared his childhood with his twin brother named, Ozzie, also a former baseball player.

Early Profession and Career

In 1982, Jose got drafted to Oakland Athletic after being named the Most Valuable Player in his High School and made his debut for the team in 1985. Later that year, he won the award of Rookie of the year with scoring 33 homes runs as well as 117RBIs. In his illustrious baseball career, he played for seven different clubs including New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics winning World Series with both clubs.

Jose won the Silver Slugger grant multiple times: three as an AL outfielder in the year 1988, 1990, and 1991 and also as a Designated Hitter in 1998. He is in fourth position untouched in A’s history with a total of 254 home runs as well as he’s one of 11 players in MLB history with 200 stolen bases and 400 home runs. In spite of his numerous wounds during his later career, Jose had an average of 40 home runs in 162 games.

Starting at 2019, Jose’s 462 professional home runs positions at 37th on the MLB list and had untouchable records in his prime which got later surpassed by players like Manny Ramirez, Rafael Palmeiro, and Miguel Cabrera to name a few. After retiring from his Baseball Career, Jose turned into a writer of a book about himself and baseball titled, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big.”

As of 2019, Jose is in the news for making a surprising tweet about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez about their engagement. In his tweet, he mentioned that Alex is cheating on JLO with his ex-wife Jessica and also challenged him to an MMA fight. Well, we’ll have to wait for JLO and Alex’s reaction to this matter.

Jose Canseco: Net Worth and Salary

With all these works, Jose has accumulated a net worth of $500 thousand from his career as a baseball player.

Jose Canseco: Girlfriend, Married, Wife

Jose got married twice in his life, and both ended in divorce costing him $7 to $8 million each. In 1988, he got married to a first wife Esther Haddad, and the estranged couple relationship and the news of them fighting always made headlines. Later, the couple got divorced in 1992.

In 1996, Jose got in a marital relationship with a girl Jessica Canseco, and later that year he got arrested for hitting his former wife and sentenced for one-year probation. Also, after only three years, Jose got divorced with Jessica, and as of 2019, he accused Alex Rodriguez of cheating JLO with his ex-wife, Jessica.

Jose Canseco: Height, Weight, Body Measurements

Jose stands tall with a height of 6 feet and 4 inches and weighs around 109kgs. He has dark brown hair color with blue eyes.

Social Media Profiles

Jose is mostly active on his Twitter with 497k followers as of April 2019.