Carlos Mirabal

Carlos Mirabal (born April 24, 1973) is an American professional baseball coach and former pitcher who played professionally from 1996 to 2023. He played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Koos Group Whales and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Nippon-Ham Fighters / Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Playing career Mirabal played baseball for Bergen County Technical Schools and then spent one semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University before leaving New Jersey to play professional baseball in Puerto Rico. In 1995, he was a replacement player for the New York Yankees during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike but injured his elbow in spring training and required surgery.

He played for the Altoona Rail Kings of the North Atlantic League in 1996.

He signed with the Houston Astros in 2007 but was released after spring training. Mirabal also served in a "key operational role" with Baseball United.