Octavio Dotel, who debuted with the Mets in 1999 and went on to play for a total of thirteen teams in his major league career, has died. The 51-year-old was one of dozens of victims who lost their lives last night when the roof at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic collapsed.
Dotel made his professional debut as a 21-year-old with the Gulf Coast League Mets in 1995 and earned a promotion to the St. Lucie Mets during that season. Over the course of the years that followed, he worked his way up the Mets’ minor league system with stops in Double-A Binghamton and then-Triple A Norfolk.