Carlos Vargas (baseball)

Carlos Miguel Vargas (born October 13, 1999) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Cleveland Indians / Guardians
Vargas was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an international free agent on July 2, 2016. He made his professional debut in 2018 with the rookie–level Arizona League Indians, for whom he pitched to a 3.93 ERA across 10 games (9 starts). In 2019, Vargas made 15 starts for the Low–A Mahoning Valley Scrappers, registering a 6–4 record and 4.52 ERA with 71 strikeouts across $77 2⁄3$ innings of work. He did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On November 20, 2020, the Indians added Vargas to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. In April 2021, Vargas underwent ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (Tommy John surgery), causing him to miss the entire 2021 season. He began the 2022 season on the rebranded Cleveland Guardians' major league 60-day injured list as he continued to recover from surgery. Vargas was activated from the injured list on July 18, 2022, and optioned to the Double-A Akron RubberDucks. He was promoted to the Guardians' Triple-A affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, on September 3.

The Guardians promoted Vargas to the major leagues for the first time on September 16, 2022. He was optioned back to Columbus on September 20 without having made an appearance for the Guardians, becoming a phantom ballplayer.

Arizona Diamondbacks
The Guardians traded Vargas to the Arizona Diamondbacks on November 15, 2022, in exchange for minor league pitcher Ross Carver. Vargas made the Diamondbacks' Opening Day roster for the 2023 season. In five major league appearances for Arizona, he logged a 5.79 ERA with seven strikeouts across $4 2⁄3$ innings. The Diamondbacks optioned Vargas to the Reno Aces on April 12.

Seattle Mariners
On November 22, 2023, the Diamondbacks traded Vargas along with Seby Zavala to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for Eugenio Suárez. He was optioned to the Triple–A Tacoma Rainiers to begin the 2024 season.