Without a doubt, Diablos Rojos de México is the best team that has been seen in the last two decades in the Mexican Baseball League, and Bauer and Canó are the spark plugs of success
The former major leaguers Trevor Bauer and Robinson Cano they have converted in the two largest firms in the last two decades of the Mexican Baseball LeagueAnd in the spark plugs of success that register the Red Devils of Mexico in the 2024 season.
Bauer, winner of the Cy Young in the Major Leagues in 2020, and Canó, with a total of 335 home runs in the Major Leagues – 112th place in history – have the Diablos Rojos with the best won and lost record and the best in two decades by reaching 50 games in the campaign.
Trevor has started a total of 10 games since his debut on April 15 and in all of them the Diablos have won. The right-handed pitcher has an 8-0 record, a 1.48 ERA and 83 strikeouts, leading all three departments.
For Bauer, the 15th of each month has become bad luck, since on April 15 he went without a decision against Tigres de Quintana Roo, pitching just 3.2 innings, allowing four runs, with just 2 strikeouts, leaving with the score 4 down. -2. Diablos came from behind and won 8-5.
On June 15 he also went without a decision against Pericos de Puebla pitching five innings with two runs and eight strikeouts. He left the game tied and Diablos won 8-7 in 10 innings.
He has two games with 14 and 13 strikeouts, respectively, on April 21 against Bravos de León in Mexico City and on May 10 in Kanasín, Yucatán, against Leones de Yucatán. In 60.2 innings, he has only hit two home runs, both playing at home at the Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium. Against León he tied a record with nine consecutive strikeouts.
After hitting 2-for-12 from April 29 to May 1 to lower his batting average from .389 to .333 – his ‘worst’ of the campaign – Canó has become a shower of unstoppable hits that has led to being the LMB’s top hitter with a .448 batting average through Saturday.
He also leads the team in runs produced with 48 – one ahead of Julián Ornelas -, on base percentage with .500, slugging with .651, OPS with 1.151, hits with 86 – also in the league -, doubles with 18, total bases with 125 and extra base hits with 25 tied with Ornelas.
Canó has hit seven home runs and all of them have been to give the Red Devils an advantage, who have only lost one of the seven games in which they have hit home runs.
In 15 games, of the 46 he has played, he has produced at least two runs in each of them, and the Devils have a 14-1 record. He has 15 two-hit games, eight three-hitters, five four-hitters and one five-hit game.
In Diablos Rojos’ 10 losses this year, Canó went without an RBI in six games.
