About Indios de Mayagüez

The Indios de Mayagüez (Mayagüez Indians) are a baseball team in Puerto Rico's Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League, in Spanish). Based in Mayagüez, the Indios have won 20 national championships and 2 Caribbean World Series. The Indios have participated in a league’s record 40 Finals. It is one of three teams remaining from the original 6 incorporated into the LBPPR at its founding on November 13, 1938.

The Indios were named after the formerly named Cervecería India (now the Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico, or CCC), the local brewery, and its formal sponsor over most of the team's 85-year run) besides the fact that Mayagüez, located at the western coast of Puerto Rico, has a strong indigenous heritage, starting with the city's name (which is derived from the Taíno language). The team's colors are burgundy, gold and blue, which at one time were the colors on the label of Cerveza India, the original flagship product of the brewery which promoted the team and served as base for its name.

The Indios de Mayagüez team is the team with the second most championship wins in PRBL history (twenty, as of January 24, 2025). It has reached the PRBL final series 40 times (as of said date). At a time when most Puerto Rican cities and towns are better known for their support of basketball, the city of Mayagüez remains as a strong baseball stronghold in the island nation. The team's fan base has a reputation for loyalty bordering in the extreme, and average game attendance, and total season attendance by the Indios has been the highest in the Puerto Rico winter league during each of the past five seasons. Debuting in the 1949 tournament, the Indios are one of a handful of teams to have participated in both the classic and contemporary formats of the Caribbean Series.< ref name="Mercado33"/>

At any given year — should the Indios make it to the PRBL tournament playoffs — attendance to the team's baseball park and post -game celebrations tend to be particularly high because they usually coincide with the celebration of the patron saint feasts (fiestas patronales) for the city of Mayagüez; it is not unusual for a championship game to coincide with Candlemas (2 February) or Candlemas Eve.

The Indios' management team is led by general manager and international cross checker from the Arizona Diamondbacks Hector Otero. The team's administrator is Mayagüez native and entrepreneur CPA José Julio Feliciano. Mako Oliveras, the winningest manager in Puerto Rico’s Winter League history with eight championships under his helm is the team's current manager (as of the 2023-2024 season).