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Montreal Expos release Jose Canseco.
 March
28, 2002 -- Cuban
slugger, Jose Canseco, who is looking to hit 500 career home runs before
retirement, will have to do it without the help of the Montreal Expos.
Canseco was released Wednesday after being told he would not be an everyday player.
The Expos then signed Troy O' Leary to a minor league contract.
Canseco, 37, hit .200 with three home runs and five RBIs in 14 spring training games.
He missed two weeks at the beginning of Spring Training due to a strained
right heel.
The former 1988 AL MVP has 462 home runs, putting him 22nd on the career
list. But Expos manager and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson plans to use other young players in
the outfield.
"We had sat down together last week -- Jose and I -- and he had shared
with me his feelings about what he felt like he could do for this ballclub, and
under what conditions he could do that," Robinson said.
"I told Jose today that he would not be an everyday player here. And he
had indicated that he didn't think he could be as productive for us," he said.
As a DH last year, he hit .258 with 16 homers and 49 RBIs in 256 at-bats
for the Chicago White Sox.
Canseco, a six-time All Star and AL Rookie of the Year in 1986
started his career with the Oakland A's. He has then went on to play for Texas, Boston, Toronto, Tampa Bay,
NY Yankees, Anaheim and the Chicago White Sox.
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