If you are wondering what the landscape of baseball will look like during the looming work stoppage that will begin in Major League Baseball at midnight on Dec. 1, look back about 20 years to the 2004-05 lockout in the National Hockey League.
New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez has arrived in Valencia, Venezuela, where he'll play with the reigning Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Professional champions, the Navegantes del Magallanes, for the upcoming winter baseball season.
Alfredo Duno, the No. 1 prospect in the Cincinnati Reds organization according to MLB Pipeline, is in camp with the Leones del Caracas in his native Venezuela in advance of the Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional season.
The Clasico Caribeno, a two-game preseason exhibition series planned for early October featuring the Charros de Jalisco of the Liga Mexicana del Pacifico and the Cardenales de Lara of the Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional, has been cancelled.
Francisco Rodríguez, Endy Chávez, and Tomás Pérez were elected the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame as the Class of 2026 by the Contemporary Committee, while the Venezuelan team that won the 2026 World Baseball Classic was unanimously elected by the Historical Committee.
Over the offseason, the Tiburones have been living every week like it's shark week, putting together a solid starting rotation and, just this week, adding two Major Leaguers to the lineup for the coming season.
Yasiel Puig has signed with the Senadores de San Juan in Puerto Rico's LBPRC, returning to the league where he first played winter ball as a 21-year-old prospect in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization during the 2012-13 season with the Indios de Mayaguez.
Here are the key dates across the four major winter professional baseball leagues of the Caribbean.
The Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional has changed rules regarding reinforcements and imported players for the upcoming season.
The third edition of the Serie de Las Americas, the postseason winter ball tournament organized by Asociation de Ligas Profesionales de Beisbol de Las Americas, will be played with 10 teams.
Yasiel Puig made more than $50 million playing professional baseball, but is now bankrupt, with nearly $10 million in liabilities and less than $2 million in assets, according to a court filing.
Vargas has signed with Lara for the 2026-27 Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional season, and unlike most active MLB players who make cameo appearances in winter ball, the Arizona Diamondbacks infielder is the rare everyday MLBer who sticks around for much of the winter ball.
Estadio Monumental Simon Bolivar, the 42,000-seat ballpark in Caracas that opened in 2023, has been cleared to host games in the coming winter ball season.
The 2026 Caribbean Series champions, the Charros de Jalisco of the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico, will head to Texas to face the Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional's Cardenales de Lara in preseason action in October.
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