by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ IT’S OFFICIAL: MAZATLAN OKAYED FOR ’21 CARIBBEAN SERIES Although Mazatlan was selected several months ago as host of the 2021 Caribbean Series, the ongoing controversy involving…
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Baseball Mexico: Monday, July 6, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MEXICAN LEAGUE CANCELS 2020 SEASON As reported on BBM last week, the Mexican League has decided to cancel the 2020 season over concerns due to the…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 29, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ WILL LMP PLAY IN FIVE CITIES, MEXICAN PLAYERS ONLY? The Mexican Pacific League held a videoconference last week to discuss a number of issues related to…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 22, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ CHITO RODRIGUEZ URGES LMB TO CANCEL SEASON A widely-respected Salon de la Fama member with over four decades of Mexican League front office experience is calling…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 15, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ CITY OF MAZATLAN OKAYS 2021 SERIE DEL CARIBE Several weeks after evicting the Mazatlan Venados from Estadio Teodoro Mariscal for violations of their lease, the City…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 8, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ DE LA VEGA, CANIZALES: WE WILL LOSE MONEY In recent interviews, presidents of both the Mexican League and Mexican Pacific League said their respective circuits and…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, June 1, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MEXICAN LEAGUE PLANS AUGUST 7 OPENER, 12-TEAM PLAYOFF The Mexican League announced last week that they will play a shortened season of 48 games per team…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, May 25, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ LIGA MAY OPEN IN AUGUST, MEX PAC SETS OPENER The Mexican League is reportedly considering starting its season in August, with teams playing 51-game schedules (or…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, May 18, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ AMID VENUE DOUBTS, CARIBBEAN SERIES TIX GO ON SALE Even though the organization that oversees the Caribbean Series has threatened to move the event elsewhere in…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, May 11, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ IS HE OR ISN’T HE? CASTILLA OUT IN HERMOSILLO After a period of time during which the general public was unsure of his job status in…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, May 4, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ VERACRUZ TO RETURN TO MEXICAN LEAGUE IN 2021? Although nearly all the attention in the Mexican League’s Mexico City office has been focused on when (or…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, April 27, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ LMB LOOKS AT JULY START; LMP OPENER IN NOVEMBER? One of Mexico’s most well-connected baseball writers is saying that the Mexican League is eyeing a July…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, April 20, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ LMB PRESIDENT DENIES 30-GAME OPTION, LIGA MAY PLAY UP TO 84 CONTESTS The president of the Mexican League has denied a media report that the loop…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, April 13, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER LMB DELAY, ESPN PREDICTS 30-GAME SEASON The Mexican League is delaying the opening of its 2020 season for a second time. LMB president Horacio de…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, April 6, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MEXICAN LEAGUE PLAYERS UNPAID DURING VIRUS SHUTDOWN Professional baseball has shut down almost everywhere around the world due to the Wuhan Virus, with only Taiwan’s Chinese…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, March 30, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ LMB WEIGHS SCHEDULE OPTIONS, LMP FACING SQUEEZE In the wake of their season openers being delayed at least five weeks due to the coronavirus panic, the…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, March 23, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MLB CANCELS APRIL PADRES-D’BACKS MEXICO SERIES The outbreak of the coronavirus and the resulting panic that led to the delay of the Major League Baseball regular…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, March 16, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ CORONAVIRUS PANIC DELAYS LMB SEASON FIVE WEEKS When fears over the coronavirus grounded every other professional baseball league around the world to a halt, the Mexican…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, March 9, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ WILL PROBEIS TAKE OVER ACADEMY FROM LIGA? According to Hector Bencomo of the Hitazo website, a proposal has been made to the organization charged by Mexican…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, March 2, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ MEXICAN LEAGUE RELEASES REVISED 2020 SCHEDULE The Mexican League has released its 2020 schedule and, as promised, teams will play 18 fewer regular season games than…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, February 24, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ CARIBBEAN SERIES TO MOVE TO JANUARY? The president of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation is floating the idea of moving the Caribbean Series one week ahead…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, February 17, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ BARTOLO COLON, RAJAI DAVIS TO PLAY IN MONCLOVA If there was any doubt whether Monclova Acereros owner Gerardo Bustamante was going to take a breather after…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, February 10, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ TOMATEROS FALL SHORT IN CARIBBEAN SERIES SEMIS After arriving in San Juan, Puerto Rico on the heels of their seven-game Mexican Pacific League championship series win…
Baseball Mexico: Saturday, February 1, 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ CULIACAN WINS LMP FINALS IN 7, ON TO PUERTO RICO Former Yankees infielder Ramiro Pena belted a pair of homers and drove in five runs while…
Baseball Mexico: Wednesday, 1 January 2020
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ YAQUIS SWEEP BOTH HALVES, ARE #1 LMP PLAYOFF SEED When Obregon’s Nathanael Santiago tossed eight pitches (seven for strikes) in a 1-2-3 ninth inning to close…