Miguel Sotelo
Pitcher/Manager
Born: (1933-06-22)22 June 1933
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México
Died: 6 July 2007(2007-07-06) (aged 74)[1]
Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Arizona–Texas League debut
1953, for the Águilas de Mexicali (as player)
Last Mexican League appearance
1990, for the Olmecas de Tabasco (as manager)
Career highlights and awards

Mexican Pacific League records

  • 18 wins, single season
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction1985

Miguel Sotelo (22 June 1933 – 6 July 2007) was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher and manager who spent more than 25 years in professional baseball playing in the Mexican League and Mexican Pacific League.[1]

Career

Sotelo was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa on 22 June 1993. He made his debut in 1953 with the Águilas de Mexicali club of the Arizona–Texas League. The following year he was under the orders of George Genovese in a minor league team in Hutchinson, Kansas Pittsburgh Pirates lower division club. In 1955, he then was transferred to the Arizona–Mexico League where he excelled with the Cananea BBC pitching a no-hitter against the Phoenix Stars. One year later he made his Mexican League debut with the Tigres del México. He also played for the Cañeros de Los Mochis and in his first year had a record of 18–6 with 13 consecutive wins.[2]

In the 1962–1963 Mexican Pacific League season, while playing for the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, he pitched a no hitter against the Navajo BBC. He retired in 1967 with a total of 133 win 115 losses in the Mexican League and with a record of 130-88 in the winter Mexican Pacific League.

Sotelo started his managerial career in 1968 with the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo, and later managed for the Broncos de Reynosa (1969–1970), Alijadores de Tampico (1971), Pericos de Puebla (1972), Sultanes de Monterrey (1973–1976; 1986), Mineros de Coahuila (1977), Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo (1978), Rojos del Águila de Veracruz (1979–1980), Olmecas de Tabasco (1987; 1990) and Acereros de Monclova (1988). In 1969 he guided Reynosa to win the league championship.

In 1985, Sotelo was enshrined in the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame.[3]

Sotelo holds the Mexican Pacific League record for most wins in a season, with 18, achieved during the 1961–1962 season.[4]

Managerial achievements

League Club Country Season
Mexican Baseball League Broncos de Reynosa Mexico México 1967–1968

References

  1. ^ a b "Falleció Miguel Sotelo, gloria del beisbol mexicano". milb.com (in Spanish). 6 July 2007. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Nace Miguel Sotelo". Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano (in Spanish). 22 June 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  3. ^ Flores, Andrés (4 August 2019). "75 peloteros emblemáticos de la LMP: Miguel Sotelo". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  4. ^ Gastélum Duarte, Guillermo. Enciclopedia Conmemorativa del 75 Aniversario de la Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (in Spanish). Culiacán, Sinaloa: Moby Dick Editorial. p. 85. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2023.

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Members of the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame
Mexican Pacific League Most Valuable Player Award
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