FIU Athletics

2007: Ranked seventh on the team and second among freshmen with a .326 average...played in 35 games and started 14 games as catcher and five as the designated hitter...hit two home runs and drove in 16 runs to go along with seven doubles...had a .972 fielding percentage behind the plate and posted a .414 on-base percentage...had his best game of the season against Wagner (3/3), going 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and four RBI...hit his first career home run against Manhattan (3/13)...also homered at Arkansas-Little Rock on April 21...started the final four games of the season, but went hitless and scored only one run against Florida Atlantic (5/17-19)...went 2-for-5 with a run scored and RBI at Florida A&M (5/8)...hit a pinch-hit RBI single to tie the game at 10-10 in the ninth inning against South Alabama (5/6)...went 1-for-3 with a walk as the designated hitter against USA (5/5)...went 5-for-14 with three RBI and three runs scored in the Arkansas-Little Rock series (4/20-22)...went 0-for-3 with a walk in the series finale...homered, doubled, scored two runs and had two RBI in the extra-inning loss in the second game of the series...opened the series going 3-for-5 with a double...delivered a pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth inning against Louisiana at Monroe (4/13)...started the series finale against Arkansas State (4/7) and went 1-for-4...had a pinch-hit RBI single in the seventh inning at Miami (4/4)...had a pinch-hit single in the eighth inning against Louisiana-Lafayette (3/31)...started and went 1-for-5 with an RBI double against Harvard (3/28)...started and went 1-for-4 with a run scored in the series finale against Western Kentucky (3/18)...hit his first career home run to lead off the fifth inning against Manhattan (3/13)...drove in four runs and hit two doubles against Wagner (3/3)...went 5-for-12 (.417) with six RBI in three games against Wagner...went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI in the series finale against Rhode Island (2/25)...made his first career start as a catcher and recorded his first career hit, a third-inning single, in the second game of a doubleheader against Rhode Island (2/24) and finished the game 2-for-2 with a walk...made his collegiate debut in the first game of a doubleheader against Florida A&M (2/17), going 0-for-1 off the bench.

Prior to FIU: Played four years of baseball at Gulliver Prep...Second Team All-Dade selection at first base as a senior...won his team’s Gold Glove Award his final three seasons of high school ball...won his team’s hitting title as a freshman with a .400 average, helping lead Gulliver to the 2003 State Championship...hit .390 as a senior, .310 as a junior and .298 as a sophomore...earned All-Dade honors as a junior as well...four-year member of the “A” and “B” Honor Rolls...chose FIU over interest from Barry, Duke, Clemson and Alabama.

Personal: Born September 23, 1987...son of Leo Mirabal and Elsie Del Carmen Fernandez...has an older sister, Karina...majoring in health sciences with career aspirations of becoming a doctor.

Mirabal’s Career Highs