The most important thing in modern baseball to be concerned is overworking the pitchers, when a pitcher is 38 years old an in 21st season of pro ball and a stature at 5'11 and 185 pounds, the risk of having a hurler wear down rises exponentially, unless the pitcher is Francisco Campos.

The veteran not only did not lose steam over the steamy weeks of july in Yucatan, he actually seemed to get stronger. In the last 10 starts in regular season, the man called "Pancho Ponches", the nickname stands because he has been perhaps the top strikeout artist in Mexico over the past 2 decades put a recird of 7-1 with a 2.89 ERA, striking out 68 batters over sixty five innings with just 16 walks, with 4 free passes in 32.2 innings over his last five starts. His last regular season outing against the eventual Liga Champion Tigres in Cancun, Francisco struck out nine while walking one batter in 5.1 frames.

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In the season, the native of Guaymas registered a 12-5 record of a 3.42 ERA with 138 whiffs and 38 walks in 137 innings while trying to win for the Liga lead. When he was 17 year old in 1995 with The Piratas, Francisco Campos has gone 146.85 with 1.604 strikeouts in 2.181 innings along with an ERA slightly under 3.00.

Campos has a valid argument for being the best pitcher of Mexico of this Mexican Basebal Generation.