The Mayos de Navojoa will have a new manager when the team returns home to Sonora this winter after ostensibly representing Tucson, Arizona last season.
Miguel Tejada, who is currently leading the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol’s Bravos de Leon, will have the helm of the Mayos when they return to Estadio Manuel ‘Ciclon’ Echeverria for the start of the 2025-26 Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico season. Thus far, Tejada has led the Bravos to a 17-13 record in his first full season with the club, which finished 40-50 last year after he took charge in May when the Bravos fired Matias Carrillo.
As a player, Tejada has extensive winter ball experience in his native Dominican Republic with the Aguilas Cibaenas of LIDOM, where he played in parts of 14 seasons, winning eight LIDOM titles and six Caribbean Series.
In Major League Baseball, Tejada won the 2002 American League MVP award and slashed .285/.336/.456 with 307 homers and 1,302 RBIs over 16 seasons with the Oakland A’s, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, and Kansas City Royals. Beginning in 2005, he was implicated several times by fellow players as federal authorities investigated the use of performance enhancing drugs in MLB, and was named in the Mitchell Report as having received $1,500 of anabolic steroids.
Graphic courtesy of the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico.
