December 2025
February has always been dominated by the Serie del Caribe. In January of 2023, we published a blog about the tournaments’ history entitled February Baseball! Please check it out if you haven't yet. Today the Serie del Caribe is controlled and organized by the CPBC or the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (Spanish: Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe). CPBC currently has four members. Those countries are the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Those four countries send the winners of their respective countries' winter league baseball champion to the tournament. Today the CPBC will on occasion invite non-members as guests to play in the tournament. Along with former CPBC members Cuba, and Panama. Colombia, Nicaragua, Curaçao, and in 2024 a team from Japan oddly enough to play in the series.
Several of these non-member countries have expressed their dislike over the way the CPBC handles the region’s largest and most profitable baseball tournament. In response a new group has formed the ABAM Americas Baseball Association (Spanish: Asociación de Béisbol de las Américas). This group includes baseball organizations from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Panama, and Nicaragua. The inaugural Serie de las Americas was held in January of 2025 in Nicaragua. The Águilas Metropolitanas of Panama’s Probeis (Panamanian Professional Baseball League) captured the Championship edging out the Leones de León of Nicaraguan’s LPBN (Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League).
The two organizations will be going head-to-head this February. The Series de Caribe is set to play February 1st to February 7th in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. CPBC announced in mid-December that the tournament would be moved from Caracas, Venezuela to Mexico. Upsetting the Venezuelan delegation. The organization sited logistics as well as political uncertainty as the tensions rise between Venezuela and the United States. The Calendar for the series has been released. It features two teams from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and guest nation Panama. Missing from the tournament is member country Venezuela. The Serie de Las Américas was originally scheduled to be hosted in Panama. It was abruptly cancelled a week before the tournament was set to begin. It was then announced that it had been rescheduled for February 2nd to February 10th and moved to Caracas Venezuela less than a week after CPBC announced the Series de Caribe was set to be moved to Mexico. Questions and concerns remain. How does Venezuela host and participate in the SdlA as they are members and are bound to the CPBC rules? Can Panama assemble two teams as they were set to partake in both SdC and SdlA? For the first time in SdC history, a member nation will have two teams in the same competition. Truly skewing the spirit of the tournament. How will newcomer Brazil fare in the SdlA?
If I had to guess the Serie del Caribe would win the viewership and much of the Caribbean baseball news cycle. The Serie de Las Américas has already received a big boost in news coverage since the two tournaments have clashed over location and calendar dates. Hopefully the two organizations can come together after the dust settles and agree to coexist or join forces. Come February 2026 if you are in the need to watch some baseball before Spring training and the WBC kicks off in March. Tune into either the Serie del Caribe or Serie de Las Américas.
For more information on the two organizations check out their Instagram pages:
CPBC @beisboldelcaribe
ABAM @sda_beisbol
