The Salon de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano, Mexico’s Baseball Hall of Fame, announced its 2025 induction class on Thursday.
Being enshrined this year are Enrique Mazon Rubio, the long-time president of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, four Mexican players, Francisco Campos, Roberto Saucedo, Roberto “Metrellaeta” Ramírez and Oscar Robles, and Jorge de la Rosa and Ismael Valdez for their careers in Major League Baseball.
Enrique Mazon Rubio served as president of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo of the Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacifico for 38 years from 1987 to 2025, during which the club won nine championships and the 2014 Caribbean Series in Margarita, Venezuela, and was a four-time host of the Caribbean Series, most recently in 2013 at Estadio Fernando Valenzuela. In addition to his work with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo and the LAMP, Mazon was instrumental in bringing Major League Baseball games to Mexico.
A native of Monterrey, Mexico, where the Salon de Fama de Beisbol Mexicano is located, Jorge de la Rosa made 450 appearances over 15 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Chicago Cubs, posting a 4.58 ERA with 1,273 strikeouts and a 1.444 WHIP in 1,522 2/3 innings. He mad 13 appearances with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo in the LAMP in 2006-07 and 2007-08, throwing 12 1/3 innings with a 0.00 ERA, striking out 15 of 47 batters he faced.
A native of Guaymas, Sonora, on Mexico’s west coast, Francisco Campos made just seven appearances in affiliated baseball in the United States, but had a long, successful career in Mexico, playing the bulk of his career with the Piratas de Campeche in the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol and playing winter ball with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, Tomateros de Culiacan, and Venados de Mazatlan. In total, Campos pitched 2,976 1/3 innings in the LMB with Campeche and Monterrey, posting a 3.75 ERA and 2,258 strikeouts. In 10 seasons in the LAMP, he threw 597 2/3 innings with a 4.19 ERA, a 1.198 WHIP, and 438 strikeouts.
Valdez, from Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, won the LMB’s Rookie of the Year award in 1993 with the Tigres Capitalinos before joining the Los Angeles Dodgers, launching an MLB career that also took him to the Chicago Cubs, Anaheim, Texas, Seattle, San Diego and Florida. He played 325 MLB games, finishing 104-105 with a 4.09 ERA and 1,173 strikeouts in 1,827 1/3 innings.
Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on Sept. 26, 1975, Saucedo had a successful career, playing over 19 seasons with various clubs, mainly with the Diablos Rojos del México. He played 1,576 LMB games with .294 career average and had eight seasons where he batted over .300, with 1,625 career hits, 1,152 RBIs and 319 home runs, a figure that ranks seventh in LMB history.
Saucedo had eight seasons with more than 20 home runs and two with more than 30, leading the league in 2002 with Nuevo Laredo with 32 homers and again in 2005 with the Diablos Rojos, when he hit 35.
Roberto Ramirez, nicknamed “Metralleta”, is one of the winningest pitchers in the history of Mexico’s summer league. He ranks third all time in winning percentage with a record of 178-90 (.664), behind only Martín Dihigo and Salomé Barojas, and is No. 1 in winning percentage among pitchers with more than 2,000 innings pitched.
He threw two no-hitters in his career, both against the Olmecas de Tabasco, the first on June 6, 1995 and the other on July 6, 1996. In 2002, he went 14-2, his most dominant season, and was a key component of the Diablos Rojos championship team.
One of the best Mexican hitters of all time, Oscar Robles born on April 9, 1976 in Tijuana, Baja California, and played 15 seasons in the LMB, playing second base for the Diablos Rojos del México, Guerreros de Oaxaca and Toros de Tijuana.
He racked up 1,585 hits, 72 home runs, 755 RBIs, 64 stolen bases, batted over .300 in 11 seasons, and his career .335 batting average is tied with Héctor Espino and behind only Matías Carrillo and Cornelio García in LMB history.
Photo: Enrique Mazon Rubio, who served as president of the Naranjeros de Hermosillo for 38 years, is a member of the Salon de Fama de Beisbol Mexicano’s 2025 class of inductees. (Photo courtesy of the LAMP)
