José Luis Sandoval

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sandoval and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.
José Luis Sandoval
Sandoval in 2008
Diablos Rojos del México – No. 3
Shortstop / Coach
Born: (1968-08-25) 25 August 1968
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
LMB statistics
Batting average.293
Home runs253
Runs batted in1,315
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the Mexican Professional
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2022
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing  Mexico
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Central American and Caribbean Games
2006 Cartagena Team

José Luis Sandoval Rodríguez (born 25 August 1968), nicknamed Borrego, is a Mexican professional baseball coach and former shortstop. He is currently the first base coach for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League. As a player, Sandoval spent 23 seasons in the Mexican League, 22 of them with the Diablos Rojos del México winning the league championship in 1994, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2008.

Sandoval represented Mexico at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 2007 Pan American Games, winning the bronze medal in both tournaments.

Playing career

Early career

Sandoval was born on 25 August 1968 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa and made his professional debut in the Mexican League in 1990 with the Diablos Rojos del México.[1] In 1993 he was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates and assigned to the Buffalo Bisons of the Triple-A American Association, where he played 65 games and recorded 48 hits, 23 runs, five home runs, 21 RBI and .230 batting average in 209 at bats.[2]

Mexican League

After spending the 1993 season with the Bisons, he returned to the Mexican League (LMB) to play for the Diablos Rojos winning LMB championships in 1994, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2008. He spent the 1997 season with the Saraperos de Saltillo, but played all other seasons with the Diablos Rojos.[1][3]

On 19 May 2012, Sandoval received a special career award from the Mexican League during his final season.[4] He retired after the 2012 season.[3][5]

Mexican League career statistics[6]
Seasons G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB BA SLG
23 2219 7725 1171 2263 435 31 253 1315 59 754 .293 .456

Mexican Pacific League

Sandoval played 20 seasons in the Mexican Pacific League (LMP). He debuted in 1991 with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, with whom he spent 19 seasons, and played his final season with the Yaquis de Obregón during the 2011–12 tournament.[7] He won seven LMP championships: six with Hermosillo in 1992, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2007 and 2010, and one with Obregón in 2012.

Mexican Pacific League career statistics[8]
Seasons G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB BA SLG
21 1138 3858 455 953 163 5 98 471 26 319 .247 .368

International career

Sandoval represented Mexico at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, where he won the bronze medal.[9] He was also part of the Mexican team that won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.[10] He appeared in four games, recording two runs, five hits, one double, three RBIs and a .313/.368/.375 batting line.[11]

Managerial career

In November 2015, Sandoval was hired as manager of the Diablos Rojos del México for the 2016 season, replacing Miguel Ojeda.[12][13] The Diablos finished the season fifth in the North Division with a 57–54 record, failing to qualify for the playoffs.

In September 2017, Sandoval was appointed as manager of the Guerreros de Oaxaca ahead of the 2018 season, replacing Houston Jiménez.[14] The 2018 season was contested in a two-tournament format and the Guerreros finished the first tournament last in the South Division with a 22–35 record. Sandoval was fired afterward and replaced by Joe Alvarez.[15][16]

Legacy

Sandoval's number 3 was retired by the Diablos Rojos del México (left) and by the Naranjeros de Hermosillo (right) in 2013.

On 23 March 2013, the Diablos Rojos honored José Luis Sandoval by retiring his number 3.[17][18]

Sandoval was honored with a corrido titled Corrido del Borrego Sandoval, performed by Los Maxximos de Sinaloa.[19][20]

In 2022, Sandoval was inducted in the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame alongside Matías Carrillo, Vinicio Castilla, Eduardo Jiménez, Isidro Márquez, Barney Serrell and journalist Jorge Menéndez Torre.[21][22]

In February 2025, Sandoval was selected by a committee of journalists as the shortstop for the Mexican League Centennial All-Time Team on the occasion of the league's hundredth anniversary.[23]

Managerial statistics

Mexican League

Year Team Regular season Postseason
Games Won Lost Tied Pct. Finish Won Lost Pct. Notes
2016 Diablos Rojos del México 112 57 54 1 .513 5th – – – –
2018 Guerreros de Oaxaca 57 22 35 0 .386 – – – – –
Total[24] 169 79 89 1 .470 – – – –

References

  1. ^ a b "José Luis Sandoval el rey de las paradas cortas". Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano (in Spanish). 22 July 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Jose Luis Sandoval Mexican, Minor & Winter Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b "'Borrego' Sandoval dice adiós al diamante". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). 23 March 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Premiación a lo mejor del 2011; Cena de Gala". LMB.com.mx (in Spanish). 20 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  5. ^ "'Borrego' Sandoval se retiró como un grande". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 28 March 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Estadísticas del beisbol mexicano – José Luis Sandoval Rodríguez". estadisticaslmb.com. Retrieved 12 February 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ^ Martínez Álvarez, José Félix (3 November 2022). "'El Borrego' Sandoval a la inmortalidad". Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  8. ^ Gastélum Duarte, Guillermo. Enciclopedia Conmemorativa del 75 Aniversario de la Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (PDF) (in Spanish). Culiacán, Sinaloa: Moby Dick Editorial. p. 571. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  9. ^ "Novenas de México y Venezuela comparten bronce en beisbol". La Jornada (in Spanish). 24 July 2006. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  10. ^ "Baseball: Men's Team: MEX - Mexico". rio2007.org.br. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  11. ^ "2007 Pan American Games Results Book" (PDF). p. 250. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  12. ^ "El nuevo Jefe Diablo". Milenio (in Spanish). 25 November 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  13. ^ Boada Nájera, Miguel (30 March 2016). "Presentación de los Diablos Rojos para la temporada 2016". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  14. ^ "José Luis Sandoval nuevo Manager de los Guerreros de Oaxaca". Agencia Digital de Noticias Sureste (in Spanish). 29 September 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  15. ^ "José Luis Sandoval deja el mando de Guerreros de Oaxaca". Página3 (in Spanish). 4 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  16. ^ "Joe Álvarez, nuevo mánager de Guerreros de Oaxaca". Siete Días Oaxaca (in Spanish). 11 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  17. ^ "Retira Diablos el 3, número del "Borrego"". El Universal Querétaro (in Spanish). 23 March 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  18. ^ "Diablos retira número 3 de Sandoval". ESPN.com.mx (in Spanish). 25 March 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  19. ^ Castillo, Agustín. "Un Borrego inmortal" (in Spanish). Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  20. ^ "El corrido del 'Borrego', un francotirador letal de los Diablos Rojos del México". Vice (in Spanish). 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  21. ^ Boada Nájera, Miguel (10 November 2022). "'Borrego' Sandoval sobre su ingreso a Salón de la Fama del Beisbol: "Es un privilegio"". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  22. ^ "Diablos Rojos: José Luis Sandoval ingresa al Salón de la Fama". MiLB.com (in Spanish). 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  23. ^ "LMB: El Equipo Ideal del Centenario de la Liga Mexicana de Beisbol". MiLB.com (in Spanish). 26 February 2025. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  24. ^ "Quién es quién 2019" (PDF) (in Spanish). Liga Mexicana de Beisbol. p. 478. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
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