Jesús Cota

Jesús Ernesto Cota Cardenas (born November 7, 1981) is a Mexican professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. He played in minor league baseball and in the Mexican League.

Career Cota attended Sunnyside High School and Pima Community College. Cota made the league All-Star team at first base and won the MVP Award. Baseball America named him the league's #2 prospect.

In 2002, with the Lancaster JetHawks, he led the California League with 101 RBI. He hit .280/.325/.441 with 33 doubles and 16 home runs. His plate discipline appeared worse with 38 walks to 121 strikeouts in 540 AB.

He spent 2003 and most of 2004 with the El Paso Diablos. He hit .272/.322/.341 in 2003 while moving to the outfield.

Cota began 2005 with the Class-AA Tennessee Smokies, where he hit .266/.325/.427 with 14 home runs and 68 RBI and earned a spot on the Southern League mid-season All-Star team before being promoted to the Tucson Sidewinders in July. He hit .214/.248/.333 only in 37 games for Tucson. He was back with Tennessee in 2006, hitting .233/.283/.377 with 15 homers and 54 RBIs despite playing almost every game.

In April 2014, he had a surgery on his right knee, and did not play the 2014 season for Saraperos de Saltillo. Instead, he played for Charros de Jalisco in the Mexican Pacific League season of 2014–2015.

In early April 2015, he suffered a leg injury, but recovered well, and came back to play for Saraperos de Saltillo in late April.