Fontanez attended
Oviedo High School in
Oviedo, Florida, and the
University of South Florida, where he played
college baseball for the
South Florida Bulls baseball team. In 2010, he played
collegiate summer baseball with the
Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the
Cape Cod Baseball League. The
New York Mets selected Fontanez in the 27th round of the
2011 Major League Baseball draft. Fontanez pitched for the
Puerto Rican national baseball team in the
2013 World Baseball Classic. At the 2014
Winter Meetings, the
Los Angeles Dodgers selected Fontanez in the
Class AAA phase of the
Rule 5 draft. He appeared in 23 games across three minor league levels for the Dodgers organization in 2015 and was 3–7 with a 5.37 ERA (making 11 starts). He was released by the Dodgers in January 2016. ==References==