Fuentes was selected by the Montreal Expos with their second-round pick in the 1981 Major League Baseball draft.[1] Fuentes was 25 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 2, 1983, with the Expos. He played in a total of nine games in the majors, eight as a pinch hitter or pinch runner and one in left field. He went 2-for-8 at the plate, with no extra base hits or RBI.