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San Jose, CA · 21 major leaguers played here

Sorted by career bWAR. Colleges are from the Lahman database through 2014; for later players, the school they were drafted from, per the MLB draft.

Player	At college	Major-league career	Career bWAR
Mark Langston	1979–1981	1984–1999	49.8
Ken Caminiti	1983–1984	1987–2001	33.3
Carlos Torres	2003	2009–2019	3.8
Larry Lintz	1970–1971	1973–1978	2.8
Randy Johnson	1977–1978	1982–1984	2.7
Anthony Telford	1985–1987	1990–2002	2.5
Brad Kilby	2002–2005	2009–2010	0.9
Mike Brown	1980	1983–1988	0.9
Anthony Chavez	1991–1992	1997	0.4
Aaron Bates	2003	2009	0.0
John Oldham	1952–1954	1956	0.0
Jason Jimenez	1997	2002	-0.1
Jeff Ball	1990	1998	-0.1
Jason Simontacchi	1995	2002–2007	-0.5
Mike Rouse	1999	2006–2007	-0.6
Kevin Frandsen	2001–2004	2006–2015	-0.7
Hal Kolstad	1956–1957	1962–1963	-1.7
Chris Codiroli	1977	1982–1990	-2.8
Charles McAdoo	drafted 2023		—
Kellen Strahm	drafted 2019		—
Ruben Ibarra	drafted 2021		—

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