Juan José Pacho Burgos (born 8 April 1963 in

Oxkutzcab Oxkutzcab () is a small city and the municipal seat of the Oxkutzcab Municipality, Yucatán in Mexico. As of 2015, the city has a population of 33,854. Oxkutzcab is an agricultural center, focused mainly on the production of tropical fruits such ...

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), is a Mexican former

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player and manager.

Career

Pacho played as a shortstop for the

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. For 19 seasons, he played for the

Leones de Yucatán The Leones de Yucatán (English: Yucatán Lions) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League. The team plays its home games at Parque Kukulcán Alamo in Mérida, Yucatán. The Leones have won the Mexican League title five times in 1957 ...

, then in 1984 for the

Diablos Rojos del México The Diablos Rojos del Mexico (English: Mexico Red Devils) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Mexico City, Mexico. The team was founded in 1940 by Salvador Lutteroth and Ernesto Carmona. The Diablos Rojos play their ho ...

, from 1985 to 2002 he came back to Yucatán team. Pacho's average was 0.278 in 1891 games. In 6370 turns to the bat, he produced 1768 hits, 202 doubles, 27 triples, 14 home runs, producing 528, scoring 806 and received 517 bases. Pacho was member in his childhood of the Yucatan state team representing virtually every competition at national level, from teenager to young adult. He mentioned once to newspapers: "in my village, there were only two things to do on Sundays, that is going to church and playing baseball". In 2005, Pacho was the Manager of the

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team

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and the team under his leadership won the

Caribbean Series The Caribbean Series ( Spanish: ''Serie del Caribe'') is an annual club tournament contested by professional baseball teams in Latin America. It is organized by the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation. The series is normally played in ...

beating the Águilas Cibaeñas from

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. In 2015, Juan Jose Pacho is the manager of the winter

team Venados de Mazatlán and under his leadership won the 2016

to the Tigres de Aragua from

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. In 2009, he was inducted into the

Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame The Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano (in English, Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame), commonly called the Salón de la Fama (Hall of Fame) is a baseball hall of fame and museum located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inaugurated on 10 ...

for his achievements in baseball as a professional athlete.

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1963 births Living people Algodoneros de Unión Laguna managers Batavia Trojans players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Caribbean Series managers Charleston Charlies players Chattanooga Lookouts players Diablos Rojos del México players Generales de Durango managers Glens Falls White Sox players Greenville Braves players Leones de Yucatán managers Leones de Yucatán players Olmecas de Tabasco managers Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States Minor league baseball managers Richmond Braves players Rieleros de Aguascalientes managers Saraperos de Saltillo managers Sportspeople from Yucatán (state) Venados de Mazatlán managers Venados de Mazatlán players Waterloo Indians players {{Mexico-baseball-infielder-stub