Earlier this evening ex-Athletic Jose Canseco tweeted the following:
home runs should not count if you lose and count doble if you win
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 25, 2012
So what exactly would this do for Jose Canseco’s career numbers? Well, let us have a look.
Thank to baseball-reference.com we see that Canseco’s wins/loss/tie splits comes out as follow:
| in Wins | 975 | 959 | 4377 | 3722 | 829 | 1122 | 183 | 11 | 307 | 941 | .301 | .393 | .604 | .997 | 2248 | .322 | 129 | |
| in Losses | 911 | 874 | 3749 | 3333 | 356 | 754 | 156 | 3 | 155 | 465 | .226 | .305 | .414 | .719 | 1381 | .272 | 67 | |
| in Ties | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .667 | 1.000 | 1.667 | 2 | .500 | 283 |
By his own admission we can remove those 155 home runs he hit in losses. That takes him down to 307. Double that and you, of course get 614 home runs. Good enough for #32 on the all-time leader board, as Jason Wojciechowski shows. But what does that do for his overall numbers? Well, they would look like this:
Hits ABs BA 2Bs 3Bs SLG OBP OPS
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2028 7055 .287 339 14 .688 .376 1.064
Interesting.
