Dan Carela, a former New York Mets farmhand, joins the Jackals for his third professional season in 2011.

Carela is coming off a dominant 2010 campaign where he posted a 2-1 record with a 1.63 ERA and four saves in 22 games between the rookie-level Gulf Coast League Mets and Single-A Short Season Brooklyn Cyclones. After turning in three scoreless relief appearances in the GCL, Carela was promoted to Brooklyn where he proceeded to hold opponents to a .188 batting average while allowing just 16 hits in 24.2 innings to compliment a 1.82 ERA.

In 2009 with the GCL Mets, Carela went 0-2 with a 5.79 ERA in 13 games while notching 22 strikeouts in 18.2 innings.

Carela, who was born and raised in New York City, originally signed with the Mets as a non-drafted free agent in October 2008. He attended the same high school, George Washington High School in Washington Heights, as former major leaguers Rod Carew and Manny Ramirez. Carela played collegiately at a pair of junior colleges: East Central Community College (Miss.) in 2007 and Wallace Community College (Ala.) in 2008.