Puerto Rico Baseball League
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| Current season | Puerto Rico Baseball League 2017-18 season |
| sport | baseball |
| abbreviation | PRBL |
| Association | La Federación de Béisbol de Puerto Rico |
| League foundation | 1938 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Country countries |
 Puerto Rico
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| Title holder | Criollos de Caguas |
| Record champions |
Indios de Mayagüez , Criollos de Caguas (18 each) |
| TV partner | WIPR-TV |
| Website | ligapr.com |
The Puerto Rico Baseball League (PRBL) is the professional baseball league in Puerto Rico . It currently consists of five teams, the master participates in the series del Caribe ( Caribbean Series ). The PRBL is one of the so-called Winter Leagues , whose seasons are in the off-season of the North American Major League Baseball (MLB) and in which some players from the MLB squads are used.
Until the suspension of the 2007/08 season and the resumption of play in 2008, the league was officially called Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico (LBPPR, Spanish for "Professional Baseball League of Puerto Rico").
Current teams and stadiums (2017/18)
- Criollos de Caguas (" Caguas Creoles"), home stadium: Parque Yldefonso Solá Morales
- Gigantes de Carolina (" Carolina Giants"), home stadium: Estadio Roberto Clemente Walker
- Indios de Mayagüez (" Mayagüez Indians"), home stadium: Estadio Isidoro García
- Tiburones de Aguadilla (" Aguadilla Haie"), home stadium: Estadio Luis A. Canena Marquez
- Cangrejeros de Santurce (" Santurce Crab Fisherman"), home stadium: Estadio Hiram Bithorn
Former teams
- Lobos de Arecibo (" Arecibo Wolves")
- Mets de San Juan ("San Juan Mets")
- Atenienses de Manatí (" Manatí Athenians")
- Venerables de Guayama (" Guayama Honorable")
- Vaqueros de Bayamón (" Bayamón Cowboys")
- Piratas Kofresí de Ponce (" Ponce Pirates Kofresí ")
- Grises de Humacao (" Humacao gray")
- Senadores de San Juan (" San Juan Senators")
- Leones de Ponce (" Ponce Lions")
Game mode
Each team plays 48 games in the regular season, including games in the Interliga series in December against the teams of the Dominicana de Béisbol Invernal from the Dominican Republic in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons . These interleague games will not take place in the 2010/11 season. In January, the four best-placed teams play the two participants in the best-of-seven final series in another league round with 12 games per team. Until 2009/10 there had been a semi-final (best-of-seven).
history
The LBPPR was created in 1938 as the Liga Semi-Pro de Béisbol de Puerto Rico . The six founding teams were the Criollos de Caguas , the Grises de Humacao , the Indios de Mayagüez , the Piratas Kofresí de Ponce , the Senadores de San Juan and the Venerables de Guayama . A year later, the Tiburones de Aguadilla and the Cangrejeros de Santurce were added.
In August 2007 it was announced that the 2007-08 season would have to be canceled due to a decline in audience numbers and revenue over the past decade. The league announced to prepare a new marketing strategy and a restructuring of the league. In recent years, the LBPPR had suffered in the audience market from increasing competition from football. In May 2008, the league announced the resumption of play for the 2008/09 season. The Atenienses de Manatí returned to their old home Santurce , a district of San Juan, where they had belonged as Cangrejeros de Santurce to one of the most important teams in league history. They opened on November 6, 2008 against the Gigantes de Carolina the new season, which should bring the new beginning for professional baseball in Puerto Rico.
In the 2009/10 season the league consisted of only five teams, as the Cangrejeros again did not participate in the game. In the 2010/11 season, the Senadores de San Juan replaced the Lobos de Arecibo.
master
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| team | title |
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| Indios de Mayagüez | 18th |
| Criollos de Caguas | 18th |
| Cangrejeros de Santurce | 14th |
| Leones de Ponce | 11 |
| Senadores de San Juan | 8th |
| Vaqueros de Bayamón | 4th |
| Venerables de Guayama | 2 |
| Lobos de Arecibo | 2 |
| Gigantes de Carolina | 2 |
Caribbean Series title
| team | CS title |
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| Cangrejeros de Santurce | 5 |
| Criollos de Caguas | 5 |
| Indios de Mayagüez | 2 |
| Lobos de Arecibo | 1 |
| Leones de Ponce | 1 |
| Vaqueros de Bayamón | 1 |
| Senadores de San Juan | 1 |
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cangrejeros de Santurce no jugarán esta temporada. primerahora.com, November 4, 2009, accessed October 14, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ Tony tira la toalla. In: elnuevodia.com. October 4, 2009, Retrieved January 23, 2010 (Spanish).