Tigres de Aragua
Tigres de Aragua | |||
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League | LVBP | ||
Location | Maracay, Aragua | ||
Ballpark | Estadio José Perez Colmenares | ||
Year founded | October 15, 1965 | ||
League championships | 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2015–16 | ||
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The Tigres de Aragua (English: Aragua Tigers) is a baseball team that plays in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League and represents the state of Aragua.
Founded in 1965, the Tigres plays its home games at the Estadio José Pérez Colmenares in Maracay. The team won the Venezuelan National Series Championship for the third time in 2009, by defeating the Leones del Caracas at the UCV Stadium, 7–2, in the seventh game of a best-of-seven series. This championship made it their third in a row and eighth in history, including five of the prior six years.
The Tigres won their first Caribbean World Series title in 2009. Their most recent championship was in the 2015–2016 season, when they defeated Navegantes del Magallanes in six playoff games.
Championship titles/Managers
- 1971–1972: Rod Carew
- 1974–1975: Osvaldo Virgil
- 1975–1976: Osvaldo Virgil
- 2003–2004: Buddy Bailey
- 2004–2005: Buddy Bailey
- 2006–2007: Buddy Bailey
- 2007–2008: Buddy Bailey
- 2008–2009: Buddy Bailey
- 2011–2012: Buddy Bailey
- 2015–2016: Eddie Pérez
Caribbean Series appearances
All-time roster
- Tommie Aaron
- Paul Abbott
- Teolindo Acosta
- Edgardo Alfonzo
- Brant Alyea
- Oscar Azócar
- John Bateman
- Yorman Bazardo
- Ronald Belisario
- Dámaso Blanco
- Lyman Bostock
- Bob Brenly
- Bob Burda
- Sal Butera
- Enos Cabell
- Miguel Cabrera
- Bill Campbell
- Rod Carew
- Chico Carrasquel
- Rico Carty
- Pedro Castellano
- Ramón Castro
- Ronny Cedeño
- Raúl Chávez
- David Concepción
- Tim Corcoran
- Jerry Cram
- Steve Crawford
- Víctor Davalillo
- Alex Delgado
- Argenis Díaz
- Rawly Eastwick
- Jim Edmonds
- Dick Egan
- Dave Engle
- Eduardo Escobar
- Horacio Estrada
- Seth Etherton
- Dan Ford
- Ted Ford
- Sam Fuld
- Rich Gale
- Richard Garcés
- Avisail García
- Freddy García
- Rosman García
- Phil Garner
- Adrian Garrett
- Héctor Giménez
- Dan Gladden
- Germán González
- Tom Grieve
- Tim Harikkala
- Roric Harrison
- Leonardo Hernández
- Rich Hill
- Jim Holt
- Tim Hosley
- Dave Hudgens
- Torii Hunter
- Enrique Izquierdo
- Von Joshua
- Joe Kerrigan
- Duane Kuiper
- Bill Landrum
- Jason Lane
- Wilfredo Ledezma
- Steve Luebber
- Mike Lum
- Rick Lysander
- Anderson Machado
- Héctor Maestri
- Luis Maza
- Jesús Méndez
- José Mijares
- George Mitterwald
- Víctor Moreno
- Roberto Muñoz
- Graig Nettles
- Ron Oester
- Ray Olmedo
- Paul O'Neill
- Jim Pankovits
- Larry Parrish
- Mike Pazik
- Eddie Pérez
- Yohan Pino
- Leopoldo Posada
- Ted Power
- Juan Carlos Pulido
- Wilson Ramos
- Ken Ray
- Luis Rodríguez
- Juan Rivera
- Cookie Rojas
- Alex Romero
- Skip Schumaker
- Diego Seguí
- Hernán Silva
- Yangervis Solarte
- Lester Straker
- Rick Sutcliffe
- Mickey Tettleton
- Kevin Tolar
- Tim Tolman
- Gary Ward
- Terry Whitfield
- Milt Wilcox
- Mark Wiley
- Jim Willoughby
- Joel Youngblood
- Pat Zachry
- Eduardo Zambrano
See also
- Tigres de Aragua players
- Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
External links
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