Editing Jose Canseco (section)

====Texas Rangers (1992–1994)====
On August 31, 1992, in the bottom of the first inning of a game vs the [[1992 Baltimore Orioles season|Baltimore Orioles]], and while Canseco was in the on-deck circle, the A's traded him to the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] for [[Rubén Sierra]], [[Jeff Russell]], [[Bobby Witt]], and cash. At the moment of the trade, Canseco was batting .243 with 22 home runs and 72 RBIs in 97 games, and the A's were leading the American League West Division by 6.5 games. The Oakland front office was looking to fortify their pitching down the stretch. A's general manager Sandy Alderson announced the trade while the Athletics were still playing the Orioles that night. The trade caught Canseco, the fans, the media, and people throughout Major League Baseball all by surprise, as Canseco was considered at the time the best player in baseball, but was also the most scrutinized. From 1986 until the date of the trade, no other player had hit more home runs (226) in the major leagues. In Texas, Canseco joined Latino stars [[Rafael Palmeiro]], [[Juan González (baseball)|Juan González]], and [[Iván Rodríguez]]. He had a good start with the Rangers, hitting .367 (11-for-30) with 3 home runs and 11 RBIs in his first 8 games, but had only 6 hits and one home run in his last 43 at-bats, averaging .140. Despite missing nearly 50 games to injuries and the trade to the Rangers, Canseco managed to hit 26 home runs (7th in the AL) and had 87 runs batted in, playing 115 games in 1992 for the Athletics and the Rangers.<ref name="BR4" /> From 1985, the year he debuted with the A's, until the end of 1992, Canseco's 235 home runs were the most by any major league player. At the end of the 1992 season, the Oakland A's would go on to lose the American League Championship Series to the Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 2. Since winning the 1990 ALCS, the A's would not win a playoff series for another 16 seasons.

Canseco started the 1993 season relatively healthy, playing in all of the Rangers' games in the first quarter of the season (45 games). Although hitting only a home run every 20 at bats, he had 44 hits, 12 doubles, 7 home runs and 38 RBIs in the first 36 games he played, while batting .306 in that span. On April 25, he became the first player since [[Ted Williams]] in 1947 to reach 750 RBIs in less than 1,000 games played. On May 26, 1993, during a game against the [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]], [[Carlos Martínez (infielder)|Carlos Martínez]] hit a fly ball that Canseco lost sight of as he was crossing the [[warning track]]. The ball hit him on the head and bounced over the wall for a home run.<ref name="The Ballplayers – Jose Canseco">{{Cite web |url=https://baseballbiography.com/jose-canseco-1964 |title=Jose Canseco |website=Baseballbiography.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208072147/https://baseballbiography.com/jose-canseco-1964/ |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |access-date=September 13, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> The cap Canseco was wearing on that play, which ''[[This Week in Baseball]]'' rated in 1998 as the greatest [[blooper]] of the show's first 21 years, is in the collection of ESPN journalist [[Keith Olbermann]]. Three days later, on May 29, Canseco asked his [[manager (baseball)|manager]], [[Kevin Kennedy (baseball)|Kevin Kennedy]], to let him pitch the eighth inning of a runaway loss to the [[Boston Red Sox]]. In his inning-long pitching appearance, he injured his arm. He was out of the lineup from May 31 until June 10. He played in another 15 games after pitching against the Red Sox but he was shut down on June 23 due to arm discomfort, requiring [[Tommy John surgery]] and missing the remainder of the season. He finished the 1993 season hitting .256 with 10 home runs and 46 RBIs in 60 games.<ref name="BR4" />

In the [[1994–95 Major League Baseball strike|strike-shortened 1994 season]], Canseco again returned to his former status as a power hitter. Throughout the season, he was amongst the American League leaders in home runs, while playing exclusively as a [[designated hitter]]. On April 20, he hit the 250th home run of his career, making him the 16th player with that total before age 30. From June 3 to the 13th, he batted .559 (19-for-34) with 8 home runs and 20 runs batted in. In the last game of that span, he set career-highs for a single game with 5 hits, 8 RBIs, and 3 home runs (tying a career-high), including a grand slam against the [[Seattle Mariners]]. During [[Kenny Rogers (baseball)|Kenny Rogers]]' perfect game on July 28, Canseco went 2-for-4 with 2 solo home runs in the 4–0 victory over the [[Los Angeles Angels|California Angels]]. He finished the season with 31 home runs (4th in the AL), 90 RBIs (7th), a .552 Slugging Percentage (7), and hitting a home run every 13.8 at-bats (5th) while playing in 111 of the Rangers' 114 games. He also stole 15 bases, posted a .282 batting average, led the league with 20 GIDP (ground into double-play), and was second in the league with 114 strikeouts. Canseco was on pace to set career highs in home runs (45), runs batted in (130) and runs scored (127) when the players' strike started on August 12. He was named [[The Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year|''The Sporting News'' Comeback Player of the Year]] and finished in 11th place in the AL MVP voting.<ref name="BR4" />

Playing for the Texas Rangers, Canseco hit 45 home runs (averaging 37 per every 162 games played), 136 runs batted in, 23 stolen bases, 118 runs scored, and 180 hits in 171 games played, for a .273/.360/.515 slash line and 197 strikeouts.<ref name="BR4" />