José Agustin Mayorga (born August 20, 1992) is a Panamanian

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coach and former player who is the current manager of the

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of the

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. He has also managed the

Panama national baseball team The Panama national baseball team (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Selección de béisbol de Panamá'') is the baseball team that represents Panama at an international level. Along with Nicaragua national baseball team, Nicaragua, they are considere ...

and the

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of the

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. Signing with the

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as an international free agent on May 13, 2010, Mayorga spent five years in the Phillies system. He spent three years with the VSL Phillies of the

Venezuelan Summer League The Venezuelan Summer League (VSL) was a professional baseball league that operated in Venezuela from 1997 to 2015, primarily in the state of Carabobo. Teams in the league served as academies for Major League Baseball (MLB) organizations, and wer ...

, hitting .284 in his final season in 2012, before being promoted to the Rookie-level

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the next year, hitting .196. With the Low-A Lakewood Blue Claws, he hit .286 in 2014. Splitting time between Lakewood and High-A Clearwater, Mayorga hit .192 in his final year in the minors. Mayorga joined the

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organization as a bench coach for the

in 2018 and the FCL Blue Jays in 2021. He went to manage the FCL Blue Jays for the 2022 and 2023 season, and the

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in 2024. In 2025, he returned to manage the Vancouver Canadians. In March 2022, Mayorga was named manager of the

, replacing Alfonso Urquiola. He led Federales to league championships in 2022–23 and 2023–24, and also managed the team at the

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and 2024 Caribbean Series. He became the youngest manager to ever win a professional baseball championship in the country. Mayorga was named manager of the

for the

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. The team's fifth place finish was the best result for Panama's senior team since the

2003 Baseball World Cup The 2003 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 35th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 Amateur World Series, 19 ...

. In April 2025, it was announced he would continue as manager for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayorga, Jose Living people 1992 births Panamanian expatriate baseball players in the United States Panamanian expatriate baseball players in Venezuela Panamanian expatriate baseball people in Canada Venezuelan Summer League Phillies players Florida Complex League Phillies players Clearwater Threshers players Lakewood BlueClaws players Reading Fightin Phils players Baseball players from Panama City Minor league baseball managers