Mark Canha Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 2" / 209 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 2/15/1989 (35)
- Experience
- 9
- College
- California
Mark Canha Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Mark Canha News
Detroit Tigers outfielder Mark Canha will take a seat on Monday in the series opener against the Pirates in Pittsburgh. With Canha starting on the bench, Matt Vierling will draw into the starting lineup, playing right field and batting sixth against Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller. Vierling hasn't recorded a hit in just two career at-bats versus Keller and has just three hits in 17 at-bats (.176) with a solo home run and four strikeouts in his first six games of the season. The 35-year-old Canha should be back in Detroit's starting lineup on Tuesday after starting his first year in Detroit by going 6-for-28 (.214) with two long balls, four RBI, a stolen base, four runs scored and eight strikeouts in 36 trips to the plate over his first nine games.
The Detroit Tigers picked up the 2024 options on outfielder Mark Canha ($11.5 million) and catcher Carson Kelly ($3.5 million) on Monday. It's no surprise the Tigers picked up Canha's option after acquiring him on Saturday from the Milwaukee Brewers. The 34-year-old has a career .349 on-base percentage and hit a combined .262/.355/.400 slash line with 11 home runs, 25 doubles, a triple, 62 RBI, 11 stolen bases and 51 runs scored in 139 games with the Brewers and New York Mets in 2023. While Canha doesn't offer the most intriguing fantasy profile entering the 2024 campaign, he should have the opportunity for plenty of playing time between the outfield and designated hitter in Detroit. Kelly, 29, hit .206 (28-for-136) with two homers and 13 RBI in 50 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit this year. He'll enter next year as the primary backup to Jake Rogers.
The Detroit Tigers acquired outfielder/first baseman Mark Canha from the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday in exchange for right-hander Blake Holub. Canha will now head to his third different team in the last year. The 34-year-old veteran began the 2023 campaign with the New York Mets, hitting .245 (63-for-257) with six homers, 29 RBI and seven stolen bases in 89 games before being traded to Milwaukee midseason. In 50 contests with the Brew Crew, he went 51-for-178 (.287) with five long balls, 33 RBI and four stolen bases. Canha will now join the Tigers and compete for playing time in the outfield with Akil Baddoo, Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling. Holub, 25, had a 3.03 ERA and eight saves in 48 relief outings with Single-A Michigan and Double-A Erie in 2023.
Batting Order
1 | Mark Canha |
2 | Wenceel Pérez |
3 | Kerry Carpenter |
4 | Spencer Torkelson |
5 | Gio Urshela |
6 | Colt Keith |
7 | Zach McKinstry |
8 | Carson Kelly |
9 | Parker Meadows |
Mark Canha Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
1 | Mark Canha |
2 | Wenceel Pérez |
3 | Kerry Carpenter |
4 | Spencer Torkelson |
5 | Gio Urshela |
6 | Colt Keith |
7 | Zach McKinstry |
8 | Carson Kelly |
9 | Parker Meadows |
As the years have gone on, Mark Canha has developed into quite a good player. The peak of his performance came in the 2019 season, where everything seemed to click, and he ended up with a whopping 146 wRC+ in 126 games. Canha's power had quietly been developing in that span, and in 2019 he set new career highs in barrel (9.5%) and hard-hit rate (41.1%) en route to his power increase. He also developed into something of a walk machine, with a 13.5% walk rate, among the best in the game. Fast forward to 2020 and Canha was still an on-base machine, but the encouraging power output from the prior season was nearly gone. Things still look similar in the hard hit department (39.4%), and his groundball rate was even lower than 2019 (33.8% vs. 41%), so his power struggles don't appear to be a result of regression in those two areas. Rather, it appears that Canha wasn't hitting his fly balls and line-drives as well as previously. He lost two miles-per-hour on those batted-ball types from 2019 to 2020, as well as 13 feet of fly ball distance on average, which likely impacted his power output. Overall, Canha still has a very good eye at the plate, and he has one of the lowest chase rates in the game, so he should still be excellent in that department going forward, but for him to have mainstream fantasy appeal, he'll need to recuperate some of that lost power from the 2019 season.