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The Federación Nicaragüense de Béisbol Asociada announced their preselection 2024 Caribbean Series roster on Jan. 17.
The 2024 Caribbean Series will be held in Miami at loanDepot Park from Feb. 1-9.
Nicaragua will play their first game of the 2024 Caribbean Series on Feb. 1 at loanDepot Park against Puerto Rico at 10:30 a.m. EST and will be televised on ESPN Deportes.
The 2024 Caribbean Series will be the first time that the event will take place in a Major League Baseball stadium.
Nicaragua’s roster will have Nicaraguan-born players as well as up to seven foreign players. The team will be made up of players from all five teams in the Liga de Beisbol Profesional Nacional. Nicaragua scouted for other players to join the team as reinforcements for the 2024 Caribbean Series roster from the pool of players who played in the winter leagues during the 2023-24 season.
Players that have played in the U.S. minor leagues, Major League Baseball, independent leagues in the United States and Canada, and professional free agents are on Nicaragua’s provisional roster for the 2024 Caribbean Series.
Luis Ramirez, Yoanner Negrin, Jesus Linarez, Samuel Adames, Euclides Leyer, Francisco Peguero, Jarius Richards, and Alay Lago are the foreign players listed on Nicaragua’s provisional roster.
Melvin Novoa, Juan Diego Montes, Leonardo Crawford, Carlos Teller, Junior Tellez, Elian Miranda, Cheslor Cuthbert, Fidencio Flores, Osman Gutierrez, Norlando Valle, Ronald Medrano and Joaquin Acuna all played in the 2023 World Baseball Classic for Nicaragua and are on the provisional roster for the 2024 Caribbean Series.
Nemasio Porras is the president of FENIBA.
FENIBA announced Marvin Bernard as their manager for the 2024 Caribbean Series on Dec. 18.
The 2024 Caribbean Series coaching staff for Nicaragua includes Juan Lopez being the bench coach and hitting coach, Lenin Picota assigned as the pitching coach, Oswaldo Mairena as a bullpen coach, Sandor Guido will be the third base coach, and Eddy Talavera is assigned as the first base coach.
Nicaragua’s last participated in a club tournament when the country played in the Latin American Series, which was established in 2013 and played through 2019. Nicaragua won four straight Latin American Series from 2016-2019. Gigantes de Rivas represented Nicaragua in 2016, Tigres de Chinandega in 2017 and 2018, and Leones de Leon in 2019.
