After a 6-9 start to the 2025 campaign, the Bravos de Leon have fired manager Matias Carrillo and elevated bench coach Miguel Tejada to the head job.
Tejada, 51, played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball, hitting 30 or more homers in four different seasons and winning the American League MVP award in 2002 before playing his final summer as a professional with the Pericos de Puebla in the Liga Mexicana de Béisbol. Tejada was dogged by allegations that he used performance enhancing drugs, eventually serving a 105-game suspension in 2013 after testing positive for the use of amphetamines twice, and admitted that he falsified his birth certificate to make it appear that he was two years younger than his actual age when negotiating his first MLB contract in 1993.
Since his retirement as a player, Tejada managed LIDOM’s Aguilas Cibaenas in 2015, winning the Serie de Las Americas with the club. He was named manager of the Karachi Monarchs of Baseball United, and is expected to manage the club, the first professional baseball team in Pakistan, when they take the field for their inaugural season in late 2025.
The Bravos, based in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, returned to the league in 2017 after a 26-season hiatus caused by the original franchise’s relocation to Minatitlan, Veracruz. They finished 37-53 in 2024, good for eighth place in the Zona Sur. They missed the playoffs and have never finished above .500 since returning to the LMB.
Tejada will make his debut as manager of the Bravos tonight when they host the Piratas de Campeche (8-7) in the opener of a three-game set. All LMB games are streamed live on LMB.tv for a fee.
Photo: Miguel Tejada took over as manage of the Bravos de Leon 15 games into the 2025 LMB season. (Courtesy of the Bravos de Leon)
