Abiatal Avelino

BIOGRAPHY

Abiatal Avelino was born February 14, 1995, in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. He is an infielder in the MLB.

Avelino signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent in 2011. He made his professional debut in 2012 with the DSL Yankees, hitting .302/.398/.374/.772 with 1 home run and 25 RBIs. He split the 2013 season between the Gulf Coast Yankees and the Staten Island Yankees, combining to hit .303/.381/.399/.780 with 23 RBIs, and was an MILB Yankees organization All-Star.

He split the 2014 season between the GCL Yankees and the Charleston RiverDogs, hitting a combined .247/.308/.351/.659 with 2 home runs and 15 RBIs. He split the 2015 season between Charleston and the Tampa Yankees, hitting .260/.314/.334/.648 with 4 home runs, 27 RBIs, and 54 stolen bases in 488 at-bats. His 2016 season was split between Tampa and the Trenton Thunder, combining to hit .260/.320/.364/.684 with 6 home runs and 48 RBIs.

He split the 2017 season between Tampa, Trenton, and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, combining to hit .254/.304/.356/.660 with 3 home runs and 36 RBIs. In 2018, Avelino played for the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League, with whom he was a mid-season All-Star, and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League, and Sacramento, and batted a combined .283/.329/.438 with 27 stolen bases in 477 at-bats.

On August 31, 2018, the Yankees traded Avelino and minor-league RHP Juan De Paula to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for Andrew McCutchen. He played three games for the Sacramento River Cats of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, and was promoted to the major leagues on September 4, where he played six games for the Giants.

In 2019, Avelino played most of the season with Sacramento, with whom he batted .283/.315/.444 with 12 home runs, 17 stolen bases, and 62 RBIs in 473 at-bats. He also had seven at bats for the Giants. He was designated for assignment on August, 9, 2020. Avelino was released by the Giants organization on September 7.