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Antonio Pacheco Massó (born 4 June 1964) is a retired Cuban baseball player. He played most of his career as a second baseman with the Santiago de Cuba of the Cuban National Series, and was a frequent member of the Cuba national baseball team, as a 3 times Olympic medalist. Pacheco has been a baseball instructor in the New York Yankees farm system since 2014.
He played for Japanese corporate team Shidax between 2002 and 2004.[1]
At the end of his playing career in the National Series, he had posted a career batting average of .334, and held the record for career hits (2,356, since broken). He also collected 1,304 RBI, 1,258 runs, 366 doubles, 284 home runs and 63 triples.[2]
After his retirement as a player, Pacheco returned to manage Santiago, leading the team to an upset in the 2004–05 Cuban National Series.[3]
He coached the Cuba national baseball team to a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1]
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