Juan Pachot

Who is Juan Pachot?

Juan Pachot is a former softball player from Puerto Rico.

Pachot enjoyed a long career as a professional softball player, establishing himself as one of the best known Puerto Rican players in that sport. His career spanned 25 years. Although stricken at an early age by polio, Juan shortly became one of the greatest to ever play the sport in Puerto Rico.

Juan Pachot represented Puerto Rico at the Pan American games, the world championship of softball and the Central American and Caribbean games, the latter tournament where he won three batting titles and was voted MVP twice. Juan Pachot retired with a batting average of .365.

In 1997, he became the fourth Puerto Rican to be inducted into the International Softball Hall of Fame, joining Alejandro Cruz, among others. Ivelisse Echevarria and five other Puerto Ricans have subsequently joined Pachot at that museum.