The Leones de Yucatán (English: Yucatán Lions) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League . The team play its home games at Parque Kukulcán Alamo in Mérida, Yucatán . The Leones have won the Mexican League title five times in 1957 , 1984 , 2006 , 2018 and most recently in 2022 .
17-515: The Leones de Yucatán were founded in 1954 under the leadership of Alvaro Ponce Vidiella and Humberto "Beto" Abimerhi Abimerhi. The team's entry to the Mexican League was announced on 5 January 1954. The team nickname is a reference to the name of the beer company built by the Ponce family. The Leones opened the season on 17 April at the newly built Carta Clara Park, hosting the previous season's champions,
34-706: A professional baseball team in the Mexican League (LMB). Based in Torreón, Coahuila , they play in the North Division of LMB. The team was established on 31 March 1940 under the name Algodoneros de Unión Laguna, named for the Compañía Jabonera La Unión (La Unión Soap Company), the team's first sponsor. The team won its first pennant in 1942 under manager Martín Dihigo . The franchise moved to Nuevo Laredo in 1944, but an expansion club restored baseball to
51-677: A win–loss record of 10–12 with an earned run average (ERA) of 2.42 and allowed only 70 walks while striking out 141 batters in 181 innings , catching the attention of the Los Angeles Dodgers with whom he would play from 1980 to 1990. Since they began play in the Mexican League in summer 1954, the Lions have had fierce rivalries, first with the Mexico City Diablos Rojos and the Mexico City Tigres , and then from 1980 with
68-615: The Campeche Piratas . Pitchers Catchers Infielders Outfielders Manager Coaches [REDACTED] 7-day injured list ~ Development list # Rehab assignment ∞ Reserve list ‡ Restricted list § Suspended list † Temporarily inactive list Roster updated November 30, 2024 Transactions → More rosters: MiLB • Mexican League Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos The Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (English: Two Laredos Owls), formerly known as
85-683: The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo (English: Nuevo Laredo Owls), are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Nuevo Laredo , Tamaulipas , and also a Minor League Baseball team based in Laredo, Texas . The Tecolotes are a binational baseball team, splitting their home games between Mexico and the United States. Their home games in Mexico are played at Parque la Junta , while their home games in
102-523: The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo , and earning an 8–0 victory. In its first year in the league, the Leones won 47 games and lost 32, with one tie, and finished in second place to the defending champion Tecolotes. The team ceased play after the 1958 season and the franchise moved to Veracruz in 1959. After the 1969 season, filmmaker Manuel Barbachano Ponce , moved the Pericos de Puebla franchise to Mérida, renaming it
119-604: The 1979 season. One of the expansion teams was awarded to Yucatán. On 16 March 1979, the Leones officially returned to the Mexican League when they opened the season at the Cafeteros de Córdoba and lost 10–4. The Leones finished fifth in the Southern Division with 62 wins and 69 losses. Rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela , who later became a star in Major League Baseball , played for the Leones in 1979. Valenzuela had
136-622: The 1981 season and a falling out between ownership and Governor José de las Fuentes , Abusaid sold the team to the Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (Union of Oil Workers of the Mexican Republic), which moved the franchise to Tampico , Tamaulipas . While the stadium was taken down in Torreón and moved to Tampico, the franchise spent the 1982 season in Monclova, Coahuila , as
153-560: The Astros de Monclova. In 1985, the Indios de Ciudad Juárez were bought by Jorge Dueñes Zurita and moved to Torreón, where the franchise has remained since. The team made the postseason in 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1994, but in their lone league championship appearance in 1990, they fell in five games to the Bravos de León . Unión Laguna was bought in 1997 by FEMSA-Cervecería Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma, which sold
170-552: The Leones. In the opening game of the 1970 season on March 18 the Leones beat the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz , 4–1. The franchise remained in Mérida for five seasons and then moved to Villahermosa, Tabasco , when Ariel "Picho" Magaña Carrillo purchased the team. The third incarnation of the Lions began in 1979. On 6 April 1978, the Assembly of the Mexican League approved five expansion teams for
187-479: The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo. The Tecolotes did not play in the 2011–2012 seasons, but had hopes of returning for the 2013 season. The owner was trying to sell the team to León, Guanajuato . On November 22, 2011, the team was sold to a Colombian investor and the team was transferred to Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche . After the 2017 season, the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz franchise was relocated to Nuevo Laredo, and
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#1733085360984204-470: The United States are played at Uni-Trade Stadium . They are the only Mexican League team to play outside of Mexico. The Tecolotes de los dos Laredos were originally named the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo from their founding in 1940 to 1985, during which time they only played in Nuevo Laredo. The team's first game was played on 30 March 1940 against Unión Laguna . In 1985, the Tecolotes played games on both of
221-557: The border to Torreón for the 1975 season with the construction of Estadio Superior , which reused the structure of the former Colt Stadium in Houston . The move coincided with new ownership, Don Juan Abusaid Ríos. The team won the Zona Norte in 1974, 1976, and 1978, but fell to the Diablos Rojos del México (1974, 1976) and Rieleros de Aguascalientes (1978) in the league championship. After
238-597: The region between 1946 and 1953. In the 1950 season, Laguna won their second and latest title to date, with Guillermo Garibay as manager, defeating Charros de Jalisco 4 games to 2 in the Final Series. With the creation of the Zona Norte in 1970, the Comarca Lagunera returned to the Mexican League. The new Algodoneros de Unión Laguna played their home games in Gómez Palacio, Durango from 1970 to 1974, and moved across
255-527: The sides of the border in Nuevo Laredo and Laredo. In 2004, the Tecolotes were transferred to Tijuana and were renamed Potros de Tijuana . The Tecolotes were the Mexican League Champions in 1953, 1954, 1958, 1977, and 1989; and were runners-up in 1945, 1955, 1959, 1985, 1987, 1992, and 1993. Baseball returned to the city in 2008 when the Rieleros de Aguascalientes were transferred to Nuevo Laredo as
272-416: The team in 2002 to Ricardo Martín Bringas, the director general of Organización Soriana . At the beginning of the 21st century, the new management opted to change the team's name and colors. The Vaqueros Laguna (Laguna Cowboys) donned orange uniforms beginning with the 2003 season. The team appeared in the playoffs in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2015, the latter two years as the wild card. The 2017 season marked
289-699: The team was rebranded to the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos in 2018. They play half of their home games at Estadio Nuevo Laredo and the other half at Uni-Trade Stadium . Pitchers Catchers Infielders Outfielders Manager Coaches [REDACTED] 7-day injured list ~ Development list # Rehab assignment ∞ Reserve list ‡ Restricted list § Suspended list † Temporarily inactive list Roster updated November 13, 2024 Transactions → More rosters: MiLB • Mexican League Algodoneros de Uni%C3%B3n Laguna The Algodoneros de Unión Laguna (English: Laguna Union Cottoneers) are
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