Former Slugger Jose Canseco Wants MLB Comeback: “I Am Going to Play This Year”
I’ve heard some crazy things said by professional athletes via Twitter. But the news that Jose Canseco plans to attempt a comeback in Major League Baseball ranks at the very top.
The craziness began when Canseco tweeted on Sunday night: “I am going to play this year”.
He then tweeted: “Billy beane call me would love to dh for you just give me a tryout that’s all I ask”
The speculation is that Canseco wants to join the Oakland Athletics because 1) they are his old team, and 2) he has heard about their interest in 39-year old Manny Ramirez.
Canseco then tweeted: “Billy beane email me [email protected]”. So there you have it. Canseco’s email address for the world to see.
Canseco then went on to tweet that baseball hated Bill James but the Boston Red Sox hired him so baseball should hire him. He said that he loves the game too much to give it up. Then he added his statistics, saying he has a .350 career batting average at Fenway Park with a home run every nine at bats. (His actual numbers? .312 with a homer every 13 at bats).
So apparently Canseco would play for Oakland OR Boston.
Canseco’s final comments included asking if a tryout was too much to ask for, and then this ridiculous line: “I guess murderers and child molestors get more chances than I do”.
You can read all of Canseco’s tweets here.
For the record, I give Canseco less than a one percent chance of playing in the major leagues this season. Way way less than one percent.
For starters, he is 47 years old. He is a known steroid user and is not the type of player that any team would want to sign, especially after he publicly embarrassed the game of baseball with his book Juiced, which called out all of the game’s steroid users. He hasn’t played major league baseball since the 2001 season. And I highly doubt that he can hit at the major league level still.
If he could make the majors though, that sure would be a heck of a story.
Canseco retired in 2001 with 462 home runs, 1407 runs batted in, and a .266 batting average. He became the first 40-40 player, doing so in 1988, when he also won the AL Most Valuable Player award. Canseco played in six All-Star Games and was a member of the World Series winning 1989 Oakland Athletics and 2000 New York Yankees.
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