Piratas de Campeche

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Piratas de Campeche
PiratasdeCampeche.png Piratas de Campeche insignia.svg
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League Liga Mexicana de Beisbol  (Zona Sur)
Location Campeche, Campeche
Ballpark Estadio Nelson Barrera
Founded 1980
Serie del Rey championships2 (1983, 2004)
ColorsRed, white, black
   
OwnershipAlvaro Lebrija
ManagerLuis Matos
PresidentCarlos Pérez Marrufo
Media Televisión y Radio de Campeche (radio and TV), Tribuna de Campeche
Website www.piratasdecampeche.mx

The Piratas de Campeche (English: Campeche Pirates) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League (LMB) based in Campeche, Campeche, Mexico.

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History

In 1980, the Alacranes de Durango moved to Campeche, and played their home games at Venustiano Carranza Park. Their first season was incomplete as the result of a strike carried out by the league's players. It would not take long for the franchise to find success. In 1981, they finished with a 71–50 record, good for second place in the Zona Sur, and beat the Tigres Capitalinos, 4–1, in the first round before falling to the Diablos Rojos del México in seven games.

In 1983, under player-manager Francisco Estrada, the team achieved its first league title. It won the intra-zone round-robin postseason tournament with a 13–5 record and beat the Indios de Ciudad Juárez in seven games. The team made the playoffs again in 1986. In 1989 and 1990, they reached the zone finals, but lost. Several times in the 1990s, the Piratas made the playoffs and lost in the first round.

Between 1998 and 2000, the Piratas played at Leandro Domínguez Park while their normal venue was renovated; the team returned to the renamed and rebuilt Estadio Nelson Barrera in 2001.

Francisco Estrada returned to manage the Piratas to their second title in 2004, finishing second in their zone with a 54–41 record and beating the Olmecas de Tabasco in five games, the Tigres in five, and the Diablos Rojos in seven; they won the LMB championship by defeating the Saraperos de Saltillo in five games. Estrada's number was the first ever retired by the franchise.

Roster

PlayersCoaches/Other

Pitchers

  • 91 Jesus Alcantar
  • 44 Luis Castillo
  •  9 Roberto Espinosa
  • 35 Daniel Flores
  • 77 Manuel Flores
  • 71 Antonio Garzon
  • 54 Édgar González
  •  5 Demetrio Gutierrez
  • 31 Francisco Haro
  • 59 Kyle Lazcano
  • 51 Jovany Lopez
  • 12 Irvin Machuca
  • -- Osmer Morales
  • 65 Carlos Navas
  • 57 Lester Oliveros
  • 88 Carlos Vega
  • 69 Hector Villalobos

Catchers

  •  7 Omar Renteria

Infielders

Outfielders


Manager

  •  4 Oswaldo Morejon

Coaches

  •  8 Marco Antonio Guzman
  • 52 Luis Fernando Mendez
  • 14 Joan Pedroso
  • 38 Raul Sanchez
  • 92 Benjamin Sandoval


Injury icon 2.svg 7-day injured list

~ Development list
# Rehab assignment
∞ Reserve list
‡ Restricted list
§ Suspended list
† Temporarily inactive list
Roster updated January 25, 2024
Transactions
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Retired numbers

Nelson Barerra 16 Piratas.svg
Nelson
Barrera

1B, 3B
Retired
 2002
Francisco Campos 20.svg
Francisco
Campos

P
Retired
Hector Espino 21 Piratas.svg
Héctor
Espino

1B
Retired
 1997
Herminio Dominguez 22.svg
Herminio
Domínguez

P
Retired
Paquin Estrada 25 Piratas.svg
Paquín
Estrada

C, Manager
Retired
 1989
Isidro Marquez 33.svg
Isidro
Márquez

P
Retired
 2021
Fernando Valenzuela 34 Piratas.svg
Fernando
Valenzuela

P
Retired
 2019
Roy Johnson 39.svg
Roy
Johnson

OF
Retired
 2009

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