The Cañeros de Los Mochis () are a

professional baseball Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system. It is played in baseball league, leagues and associated farm teams throughout the world. Moder ...

team based in

Los Mochis Los Mochis () is a coastal city in northern Sinaloa, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Ahome. As of the 2010 census, the population was 362,613, which was 61 percent of the municipality's population. Los Mochis is th ...

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexic ...

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. They compete in the

Mexican Pacific League The Mexican Pacific League (, or LMP), also known as the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacífico for sponsorship reasons, is a professional baseball Winter league baseball, winter league based in Northwestern Mexico. The league comprises 10 teams. It wa ...

(LMP). The team plays at the Estadio Emilio Ibarra Almada with a capacity of 12,500 seated spectators. The Cañeros have won the LMP championship four times in 1968–69, 1983–84, 2002–03 and most recently in 2022–23.

History

Cañeros de Los Mochis made their debut on 25 October 1947 in the Liga de la Costa del Pacífico (Pacific Coast League). The Cañeros won their first Mexican Pacific League championship during the 1968–69 season, in which the top ranked team by the end of the season were crowned as champions. Los Mochis achieved this on 7 January 1969 by defeating

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6–3 in the final round robin. The team was managed by Benjamín Valenzuela. In 1983–84, Los Mochis won their second LMP championship and classified for the first time in the team's history to the

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. The Cañeros, managed by Vinicio García, defeated the

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in the final series, 4–2. In the Cañeros' debut at that year's Caribbean Series, the team finished second with a 4–2 record, and three Los Mochis players were included in the All-Star Team: second baseman

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, third baseman

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and designated hitter Jim Collins. The Cañeros won their third LMP championship in the 2002–03 season, managed by Juan Francisco Rodríguez, defeating

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in the final series, 4–1. Los Mochis represented Mexico at the

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, where they lost all their six games and ranked last. The Cañeros won their most recent and fourth championship on January 28, 2023, for the 2022–23 Mexican Pacific League season. They defeated the

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in six games.

Roster

Retired numbers

The Cañeros de Los Mochis have retired the following numbers: * 4:

* 5: Saúl Soto *14: Benjamín Valenzuela *24: Ramón Orantes *27:

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*29: José Peña *49: Teodoro Higuera

Championships

Caribbean Series record

Notable players

* Fernando Arroyo * Andrés Ávila * Jason Bourgeois *

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* Justin Christian * Rafael Díaz * Yadir Drake *

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* Cal Emery * Ernesto Escárrega * Teodoro Higuera * Gregorio Luque *

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* Yudai Mori *

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* José Peña * Alfonso Pulido *

* Don Secrist * Dan Serafini * Ed Vosberg

References

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