Former New York Mets Reliever Avilán Retires from Baseball

The Venezuelan left-hander spent one season with the New York Mets and finished undefeated as a reliever in 2019.

Former New York Mets reliever Luis Avilán has retired from baseball, per the New York Post.

Avilán, a left-hander from Venezuela, pitched for the Mets in 2019, signing a minor-league deal with the Mets and getting an invitation to Spring Training. After making the team out of Spring Training, he finished with a 4-0 record with a 5.06 ERA in 45 games, with 30 strikeouts and 14 walks in 32 innings pitched.

From there he moved on to the cross-town New York Yankees in 2020 and then to the Washington Nationals in 2021, where a torn UCL and Tommy John surgery ended his season after just four appearances.

He spent the 2022 season in the Nationals’ farm system trying to rehab and get a shot at returning to the Majors.

He ends his career with a 23-11 record and a 3.43 ERA in 458 appearances, all in relief. He also had four career saves.

Avilán broke in with Atlanta in 2012 and had his greatest success with the Braves, going 12-5 with a 2.77 ERA in four seasons. That included 218 appearances out of the bullpen.

In 2015, Avilán ended up in Los Angeles at the trade deadline in a three-team deal that saw him sent to the Dodgers.

He performed well for the Dodgers from 2015-17, going 5-4 with a 3.43 ERA. He also made nine playoff appearances with the Dodgers, where he recorded a spotless ERA in 7.2 innings.

From here, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox in January of 2018 and went 2-1 in 58 appearances before he was traded to Philadelphia on Aug. 22, where he had a 3.18 ERA in 12 appearances.