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José Acosta
	José Acosta
	(Acostica)

	Born: March 4, 1891 in Habana, Cuba
	Died: November 16, 1977 - 86 years old in La Habana, Cuba
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'6"	Wt: 134

Pitching Ratings (?)

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Notes:
- Inducted into the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame as a Player in 1958
- Played in the Major Leagues
- Played in the Minor Leagues
Relatives: Brother of Merito Acosta

Comparison

Starting Pitchers			All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WS	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	José Méndez	1908 - 1924	SP	208.4	25.4	15.2	167.7	-
2	Eustaquio Pedroso	1907 - 1924	SP	183.7	54.7	5.2	123.9	-
3	Dick Redding	1911 - 1928	SP	150.2	8.6	0.2	141.3	-
4	Joe Williams	1907 - 1928	SP	144.8	19.6	0.8	124.3	-
5	Rube Foster	1902 - 1917	SP	96.7	16.3	0.9	79.4	-
6	Frank Wickware	1910 - 1921	SP	96.3	3.3	0.2	92.9	-
7	Dicta Johnson	1908 - 1923	SP	89.1	2.1	0.0	87.0	-
8	Dick Whitworth	1914 - 1924	SP	86.3	5.2	0.0	81.0	-
9	Dizzy Dismukes	1909 - 1924	SP	85.5	0.2	0.2	85.1	-
10	Jim Jeffries	1913 - 1928	SP	83.1	6.1	3.1	73.8	-
11	Pastor Pareda	1908 - 1917	SP	79.2	0.5	0.2	78.4	-
12	José Junco	1910 - 1922	SP	73.9	2.1	1.3	70.5	-
13	String Bean Williams	1910 - 1924	SP	72.0	8.4	0.3	63.3	-
14	Bill Gatewood	1906 - 1923	SP	70.5	11.8	0.3	58.4	-
15	Sam Crawford	1910 - 1928	SP	62.6	1.4	0.2	61.0	-
16	Harry Buckner	1899 - 1917	SP	62.2	20.3	1.4	40.5	-
17	Tom Johnson	1911 - 1921	SP	58.4	0.8	0.0	57.6	-
18	José Leblanc	1913 - 1921	SP	49.9	2.9	0.6	46.4	-
19	Walter Ball	1904 - 1921	SP	45.9	6.8	1.1	38.0	-
20	Adolfo Luque	1912 - 1917	SP	40.6	6.6	1.2	32.8	-
21	José Acosta	1912 - 1917	SP	38.3	1.9	0.1	36.3	-
22	Doc Sykes	1913 - 1924	SP	37.3	2.0	0.4	35.0	-
23	Charles Dougherty	1909 - 1915	SP	32.9	2.9	0.0	30.0	-
24	Tatica Campos	1912 - 1922	SP	30.8	9.3	5.7	15.7	-
25	Steel Arm Johnny Taylor	1907 - 1920	SP	28.4	0.5	0.1	27.8	-
26	Lee Wade	1909 - 1920	SP	28.3	2.0	0.1	26.2	-
27	Emilio Palmero	1914 - 1917	SP	27.9	1.3	0.0	26.5	-
28	Lefty Harvey	1912 - 1921	SP	24.1	0.4	0.8	22.9	-
29	Lico Mederos	1910 - 1920	SP	22.1	2.3	1.3	18.5	-
30	Horace Jenkins	1910 - 1921	SP	21.6	7.4	1.8	12.3	-
31	Ad Lankford	1913 - 1920	SP	16.5	2.7	0.1	13.7	-
32	Francisco Muñoz	1913 - 1916	SP	16.1	0.6	0.0	15.5	-
33	Hub Miller	1911 - 1916	SP	8.5	3.1	0.1	5.2	-
34	Gunboat Thompson	1913 - 1920	SP	7.7	0.3	0.0	7.3	-
35	Henry McLaughlin	1912 - 1919	SP	7.5	1.4	0.6	5.5	-
36	Agapito Lázaga	1912 - 1922	SP	7.0	0.7	0.7	5.6	-
37	Sapho Bartlett	1910 - 1919	SP	5.9	0.7	0.0	5.2	-
38	Lawrence Simpson	1913 - 1917	SP	5.7	0.6	0.1	5.0	-
39	Edgar Burch	1914 - 1917	SP	5.2	0.1	0.0	5.1	-
40	Gifford McDonald	1910 - 1921	SP	3.5	0.0	0.2	3.3	-
41	Joe Smith	1913 - 1915	SP	2.4	0.8	0.0	1.6	-
42	Steven Dixon	1914 - 1916	SP	2.3	0.0	0.0	2.3	-
43	Sherley Moore	1914 - 1915	SP	2.2	0.0	0.0	2.2	-
44	Johnny Davis	1902 - 1915	SP	2.1	0.2	0.0	1.8	-
45	Robert Prior	1914 - 1917	SP	1.6	0.8	0.0	0.8	-
46	Conrado Rodríguez	1908 - 1916	SP	1.4	0.4	0.0	1.1	-
47	Charlie Bradford	1912 - 1922	SP	0.7	0.4	0.0	0.3	-
48	F. Banks	1914 - 1920	SP	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.6	-
49	Miguel Clemente	1912 - 1916	SP	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	-
50	Herlen Ragland	1914 - 1921	SP	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	-
51	George Robinson	1910 - 1923	SP	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	-
52	George Dandy	1912 - 1917	SP	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	-
53	Saulter	1913 - 1916	SP	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-
54	Felipe Marrero	1914 - 1916	SP	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	-

	José Acosta	1912 - 1917	SP	38.3	1.9	0.1	36.3	-