Caimanes de Barranquilla

Colombian baseball team

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Caimanes de Barranquilla

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League| Colombian Professional Baseball League
Location| Barranquilla, Colombia
Ballpark| Estadio Édgar Rentería
Founded| 1984
League championships| 13 (1984-85, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2012-13, 2015-16, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2023-24)
Caribbean Series championships| 2022
Colors| Blue, White, Red

Manager|  José Mosquera
President|  Jimmy Char
Website| http://www.caimanesbbc.com/
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The Caimanes de Barranquilla are a baseball team in the Colombian Professional Baseball League. They have participated in the league since the 1984–85 season, playing in the 12,000-capacity Estadio Édgar Rentería in Barranquilla. Caimanes are the most successful team in Colombian baseball, having won 13 league titles, most recently during the 2023–24 season. They also won the 2022 Caribbean Series, making Colombia the first new country to win the tournament since Mexico's Naranjeros de Hermosillo won their first title in 1976.

## History[edit]

Caimanes was founded in 1984, during the so-called "second era" of professional Colombian baseball. It replaced two teams, Cerveza Águila and Café Universal, that both folded the season before, leaving Barranquilla without a professional team. Caimanes won the title in its inaugural season.[1] However, the league would fold by 1988.

In 1998, the success of Colombian-born players in Major League Baseball, most notably Édgar Rentería (who was on the 1997 world champion Florida Marlins), led to a meeting in Miami of Colombian baseball personalities including Edinson Rentería, Edgar Perez and José Martínez (who led and contributed to the development of Colombian Professional Baseball between 1979 and 1985). The meeting established a working group consisting of the businessmen involved with professional baseball in Colombia in the 1980s and new executives from the cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena. This working group was presented with a proposal to revive professional baseball in Colombia under the leadership of the Rentería family. The working group decided to move forward with the proposal, beginning the 1999–2000 season with four teams, two in Barranquilla (Caimanes and Electricos) and two in Cartagena (Tigres and Indios).[2]

## 2022 Caribbean Series roster[edit]

Colombia 2022 Caribbean Series Roster

Players  | Coaches

Pitchers

* 28 Elkin Alcalá
* 55 Rodrigo Benoit
* 27 Randy Consuegra
* 21 Luis De Ávila
* 20 Juan Díaz
* 78 Luis Escobar
* 41 Elniery García
* 67 Donald Goodson
* 42 Yaramil Hiraldo
* 37 Joel Inoa
* 42 Francisco Jiménez
* 99 Porfirio López
* 16 Eduar López
* 25 Deivy Méndez
* 31 Luis Moreno
* 69 Jeffry Niño
* 47 Fernando Pérez
* 46 Ronald Ramírez

[1] updated on 28 January 2022

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Catchers

* 9 Sandy León
* 7 Carlos Martínez
* 2 Andrés Noriega

Infielders

* 19 Carlos Arroyo
* 1 Tsung-Che Cheng
* 77 Dayan Frías
* 3 Dilson Herrera
* 22 Mauricio Ramos
* 17 Reynaldo Rodríguez

Outfielders

* 15 Brayan Buelvas
* 24 Robinson Cabrera
* 16 Édgar Figueroa
* 10 Harold Ramírez
* 13 Brallan Pérez

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Manager

* 28 José Mosquera

Coaches

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Segunda Época (1979-1985, 1987-1988)" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-11-14.
2. ^ Team Rentería. Nosotros.[permanent dead link]

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Colombian Professional Baseball League

Liga Profesional de Béisbol

Teams (founded)|

* Caimanes de Barranquilla (1984)
* Tigres de Cartagena (1996)
* Leones de Barranquilla (2003)
* Vaqueros de Montería (2019)

Defunct teams|

* Gigantes de Barranquilla
* Toros de Sincelejo
* Indios de Cartagena
* Torices de Cartagena
* Café Universal
* Kola Román de Cartagena
* Águilas de Bogotá
* Potros de Medellín

Associated competitions|

* Caribbean Series
* Baseball Champions League
* Latin American Series
* Intercontinental Series

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