The 2025 Caribbean Series will start on January 31 and run until the championship game on February 7 at Estadio Nido de los Aguilas in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Five teams participating with host nation, the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico, the Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente in Puerto Rico, the Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional, the Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana, and one invitee with the Japan Breeze team that will appear in the tournament for the first time.
The 2025 Caribbean Series will be televised on ESPN Deportes until the final out of the championship game on February 7.
The LAMP, LVBP, LIDOM, and LBPRC are all part of the Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe (CBPC).
Once the event starts in late January, it will be the 67th edition of the Caribbean Series and the 76th year of the CBPC.
El Estadio Nido de los Águilas is home to LAMPs’ Águilas de Mexicali franchise. This is the second time that Mexcali is hosting the Caribbean Series at Estadio Nido de los Águilas since the 2009 event, when the 2008-09 LVBP champion, the Tigres de Aragua, won.
Mexico has hosted the Caribbean Series in Hermosillo in 1974, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2013.
The city of Mazatlan has hosted the Caribbean Series in 1978, 1989, 1993, 2005, and 2021. Culiacan held the event in 2001 and 2017 alongside Guadalajara in 2018, the only time the country hosted.
The teams in the 2024-25 LAMP season and now that are playing in the postseason and are still alive for contention to play in the 2025 Caribbean Series are the No. 1 Tomateros de Culiacán, No. 3 Charros de Jalisco, No. 4 Cañeros de Los Mochis, No. 5 Algodoneros de Guasave, No. 2 Naranjeros de Hermosillo, and the No. 7 Yaquis de Obregón.
On January 6, the Tomateros de Culiacan won their first-round best-of-seven series in five games over the No. 8 seed, Venados de Mazatlán and the Charros de Jalisco won in five games over the No. 6 seed, Aguilas de Mexicali.
The Cañeros de Los Mochis made the Caribbean Series in 1984, 2002, and 2023; the Tomateros de Culiacán won two Caribbean Series championships in 1996 and 2002 and have appeared in the event in 1978, 1983, 1985, 1997, 2004, 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2021, the Charros de Jalisco have played in the Caribbean Series in 2019 and 2022, the Algodoneros de Guasave have appeared in 1972, the Naranjeros de Hermosillo have appeared in the tournament in 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2010, and 2024 and won in 1975 and 2014 and the Yaquis de Obregon have appeared in 1973, 1981, 2008, and 2012, and won in 2011 and 2013.
Mexico first participated in the Caribbean Series in 1971 with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The only teams from Mexico with multiple Caribbean Series Championships are the Tomateros de Culiacán, the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, the Venados de Mazatlan in 2005 and 2016, and the Yaquis de Obregon. The Aguilas de Mexicali are the only LAMP team winning only one Caribbean Series title in 1986.
The Tigres del Licey of LIDOM have the most Caribbean Series titles with 11, the Aguilas Cibaenas of LIDOM has six, the Cangrejeros de Santurce and the Criollos de Caguas of the LBPRC have five, and the Leones del Escogido of LIDOM have four, and are the only teams with more than two Caribbean Series titles.
The CBPC was formed in Havana, Cuba, on April 12, 1948, by representatives from the winter leagues of Cuba, Panama, and Puerto Rico. Shortly after, Venezuela joined the confederation.
The creation of the CBPC was sponsored by National Association president George Trautman, who ensured that the various winter leagues were affiliated with MLB alongside all 16 teams’ minor league affiliates.
The Caribbean Series started in 1949 in Havana, Cuba, at Estadio LatinoAmericano, where the 1948-49 Cuban Winter League champion, the Alacranes del Almendares went 6-0 to win the first event, along with the Cervecería Caracas from the LVBP, the Refresqueros de Spur Cola from the Panama Probeis league, and the Indios de Mayagüez of the Puerto Rico Winter League participating in the first year.
Venezuelan baseball entrepreneurs Pablo Morales and Oscar Prieto Ortiz founded the Caribbean Series. They plateaued the idea after seeing the success of the Serie Interamericana in 1946, which featured the clubs the Brooklyn Bushwicks from the United States, the Cervecería Caracas from Venezuela, the Sultanes de Monterrey from Mexico, and an All-Star team composed of Cuban players.
Cuba and Panama were part of the CBPC before the Caribbean Series was suspended after the 1960 event due, due to the Cuban Revolution and the United States embargo against Cuba that prevented U.S. businesses from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1958 and Fidel Castro taking over the diplomatic control of the island and dissolving professional baseball, which led to Major League Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick to rule that American major leaguers were barred from playing in Cuba, and where the 1961 Caribbean Series had been scheduled to be held during that time frame.
The Caribbean Series was not held from 1961 until 1969 due to the United States Embargo with Cuba. It did not revamp its second edition until 1970, when the Dominican Republic participated in the first year, alongside Puerto Rico and Venezuela returning.
Historic Context, Did You Know? – The 1981 Caribbean Series was supposed to be the 12th edition from the second stage of the event, but was canceled due to a Venezuelan player’s union strike and was going to be held at Caracas, Venezuela, in February, 1981 at Estadio Universitario with the Criollos de Caguas of the Puerto Rico Winter League, the Leones del Caracas from LVBP, the Leones del Escogido of LIDOM, and the Yaquis de Obregón of LMP that were going to participate at the tournament.
Recap of loanDepot Park With 2024 Caribbean Series Being Held In Miami At A MLB Stadium For The First Time – Last winter league season, the 2024 Caribbean Series was held at loanDepot Park, home of the Miami Marlins for the first time that the event was held at a Major League facility. The 2024-25 LVBP champions, Tiburones de La Guaria, won the championship game over the 2024-25 LIDOM champion, the Tigres del Licey, 3-0 in front of a record-breaking 36,667 fans in attendance, the most at the Caribbean Series.
Nicaragua, Curacao, and Panama were not invited to the 2025 Caribbean Series after appearing at loanDepot Park.
Miami held the Caribbean Series for the third time last year while hosting in 1990 at the Orange Bowl and in 1991 at Bobby Maduro Stadium for the city’s first two times.
Tiburones de La Guaira starting pitcher Angel Padron threw a no-hitter against Nicaragua, winning 9-0, and was the first no-hitter since the 1952 event in Panama City, Panama, when Leones del Habana, Cuban Winter League pitcher Tommy Fine accomplished that feat against Venezuela’s Cervecería Caracas winning 1-0.
Padron finished the game against Nicaragua with 57 strikes on just 88 pitches, with one walk, and four strikeouts, and faced 27 hitters, the minimum number of batters a pitcher can meet in one game.
Padron is the only Latin-born player to have thrown a no-hitter at the Caribbean Series. Tiburones de La Guaira manager Ozzie Guillen, former Tigres del Licey, and Hall-of-Fame manager Tommy Lasorda are the only managers to have won the World Series and Caribbean Series in baseball history.
CPBC Research On 30 Thousand Plus Fans At 1955 Caribbean Series – CPBC press officer Nelson de la Rosa identified on the Confederations’ website on November 21, 2024, that the 1955 event held 30 plus thousand fans at Estadio Universitario in Caracas, Venezuela, through the historic Bohemia Magazine, in its edition of February 20, 1955, published a report from journalist Eladio Secades.
All the listed details of the total attendance at the event were referenced from the CPBC publication: https://www.seriedelcaribe.net/noticias/detalle-noticia/mas-de-30-mil-fanaticos-asistieron-a-la-inauguracion-de-la-serie-del-caribe-en-1955.
Caribbean Series Next Destinations – The 2026 tournament will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, with Estadio Monumental Simon Bolivar in La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela, El Estadio Jorge Luis García Carneiro in La Guaira, Venezuela, and Estadio Universitario being the possible game and practice sites. The 2027 event will be held in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, at Estadio Fernando Valenzuela, home of the LAMP organization, the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, and in 2028, going back to Miami at loanDepot Park for the 69th edition.
2025 Caribbean Series Schedule
All Games Will Be Televised On ESPN Deportes
All Caribbean Series Games Will Be Played At Estadio Nido de los Águilas
Friday, Jan 31
Venezuela vs Dominican Republic – 1:30 p.m. PT/4:30 p.m. ET
Puerto Rico vs Mexico – 8:00 p.m. PT/11:00 p.m. ET
Saturday, February 1
Dominican Republic vs Japan – 12:50 p.m PT/3:50 p.m. ET
Mexico vs Venezuela – 5:50 p.m. PT/8:50 p.m. ET
Sunday, February 2
Japan vs Puerto Rico – 12:50 p.m. PT/3:50 p.m. ET
Dominican Republic vs Mexico – 5:50 p.m. PT/8:50 p.m. ET
Monday, February 3
Venezuela vs Puerto Rico – 12:00 p.m. PT/3:00 p.m. ET
Mexico vs Japan – 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET
Tuesday, February 4
Puerto Rico vs Dominican Republic – 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET
Japan vs Venezuela 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET
Wednesday, February 5: Semifinals
Semifinal 1: 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET
Semifinal 2: 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET
Thursday, February 6
Third place game: 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET
Friday, February 7
Final: 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET
