T. J. Rivera
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Rivera in 2016 Spring Training
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| New York Mets – No. 54 | |||||||||||||
| Infielder | |||||||||||||
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Born: October 27, 1988 The Bronx, New York |
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| Batting average | .333 | ||||||||||||
| Home runs | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 16 | ||||||||||||
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Thomas Javier Rivera (born October 27, 1988) is a Puerto Rican-American professional baseball infielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). Rivera is a native of New York City, and went undrafted after playing college baseball at Troy University.
Rivera was born to Tommy, a handyman, and Nilsa Rivera, an insurance adjuster. Rivera is of Puerto Rican descent. His mother and father are from Aibonito and Ponce, Puerto Rico. He represented Puerto Rico at the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Rivera grew up as a fan of the New York Yankees, but also liked the Mets. Rivera met his wife, Ashton, at Troy University.
Rivera grew up in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx, and attended Herbert H. Lehman High School. He began his college baseball career at FDU in New Jersey where he then transferred to Wallace Community College in the Alabama Community College Conference, in Dothan, Alabama, and transferred to Troy University in Troy, Alabama, where he played for the Troy Trojans. He graduated from Troy in 2011, but went unselected in the Major League Baseball draft.
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