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(''Serie del Caribe'') was held from February 4 through February 10 of with the champion baseball teams of the

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Venados de Mazatlán Venados de Mazatlán ( en, Mazatlán Deer) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican Pacific League based in Mazatlan, Sinaloa. In 2016, the team won the Mexican Pacific League Championship and went on to win their second Caribbean Series ...

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Indios de Mayagüez The Indios de Mayagüez (Mayagüez Indians) are a baseball team in Puerto Rico's Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League, in Spanish). Based in Mayagüez, the ''Indios'' have won 18 national ...

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. The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at

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in Puerto la Cruz,

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Summary

Final standings

Individual leaders

All-Star team

Sources

*Bjarkman, Peter. ''Diamonds around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball''. Greenwood.
Serie del Caribe : History, Records and Statistics
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