TheTigres de Quintana Roo (English: Quintana Roo Tigers) are aprofessional baseball team in theMexican League based inCancún,Quintana Roo,Mexico. The team is part of the Southern Division (Zona Sur). The team has won twelve championships to date: 1955, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2015.

Tigres de Quintana Roo
Team logo Cap insignia
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League	Liga Mexicana de Beisbol (Zona Sur)
Location	Cancún, Quintana Roo
Ballpark	Estadio de Béisbol Beto Ávila
Founded	1955
Nickname(s)	"El equipo que nació campeón"
League championships	12 (1955, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015)
Division championships	18 (1955, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1982, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
Former name(s)	Tigres de la Angelopolis Tigres Capitalinos
Former ballparks	Parque del Seguro Social (1955–99) Foro Sol (2000–01) Parque Hermanos Serdan (2002–05)
Colors	Navy blue, orange, white
President	Linda Valenzuela
Manager	C. J. Retherford
Media	106.7FM, 105.1FM
Website	tigresqroo.com

The Tigres were founded inMexico City in 1955 as theTigres del México (English: Mexico Tigers),^[1] and played there through the 2001 season. After a brief stint inPuebla as theTigres de laAngelópolis, the team relocated to Cancún. The team was founded by industrial businessmanAlejo Peralta, and was long owned by his son,Carlos Peralta. The team was purchased by an ownership group includingMajor League Baseball All-StarpitcherFernando Valenzuela in 2017.

They have a competitive and long-standing rivalry known as theGuerra Civil (Civil War) against their formercrosstown rivals theDiablos Rojos del México.^[2] The Tigres won the Mexican League championship in their inaugural season, an achievement that has never been matched, and was dubbed: "El equipo que nació campeón" (English:The team that was born as champion).^[3] The Tigres are a perennial powerhouse and have won 18 division and 12 league championships since their inception.

On 14 April 1955, the Tigres made their debut at the Julio Molina ballpark inMérida, Yucatán.^[4]

In 1966, the Tigres toured Japan, losing all their 13 games played against Japanese teams.^[5]

The Tigres played inMexico City from its inception until 2001, when the team moved toPuebla City. The team was known as Tigres del México or Tigres Capitalinos. During these years, the team played at theParque del Seguro Social and later at theForo Sol, starting in 2000, after the Parque del Seguro Social was demolished in order to build a shopping mall.^[6]

On their last two seasons in Mexico City, the Tigres won back to back championships, defeating rivalsDiablos Rojos del México.^[7]

In 2002, the team moved to Puebla and changed its name to Tigres de la Angelópolis.

In commemoration of their first 50 years of competition, an alternate logo was designed in 2005. The Tigres played their 50th season relying only on Mexican players, making the championship more significant. Furthermore, the 2005 season was named "Ing. Alejo Peralta" in memory of the Tigres' founder and father of the then-owner.

At the end of the 2006 season, the club's president,Carlos Peralta, announced that the team would move to the city ofCancún,Quintana Roo. The team was renamed the Quintana Roo Tigres, and began play inBeto Ávila Stadium.^[8]

For the 2009 season, Enrique "Che" Reyes was replaced byMatías Carrillo asmanager. Carrillo, a former major league player for theFlorida Marlins, had been a successful player for Tigres from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s having won five championships as player. The Tigres continued to be a competitive squad under Carrillo and reached the 2009 final series, but lost toSaraperos de Saltillo. It was two years later, in 2011, when the team reached the final once more, this time facing their perennial rival: theDiablos Rojos del Mexico.

In 2011, the Tigres and Diablos would play their eighth finals series against each other since 1966. The Tigres entered the 2011 series as an underdog.^[9] Nevertheless, the best-out-of-seven series ended with a 4–0 sweep against Diablos before a sell-out crowd (with a large presence of Tigres supporters) atForo Sol.^[10]

Despite injuries to key Tigres players, the team won its eleventh championship against theSultanes de Monterrey, 4–1, in a best-out-of-seven series.

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  The Tigres' former logo in Mexico City
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  Tigres' former logo in Cancún

The followingHall of Famers played and/or managed for the Tigres.

• Julio Franco (First Baseman)
• Tyler Herron (1986-2021) (Pitcher)
• Fernando "el Pulpo" Remes (Shortstop)
• Ismael Valdez (Pitcher)
• Pablo Ortega (Pitcher)
• Karim García (Outfielder)
• Jorge Cantú (Infielder)
• Daryle Ward (First baseman/Outfielder)

• Official website(in Spanish)