René Rivera (born July 31, 1983 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball catcher who is currently playing for the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.
Rivera was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the second round (49th overall) of the 2001 amateur draft. He made his major league debut September 22, 2004. After playing 35 games for the Mariners in 2006, Rivera, in 2007, played for the Mariners Double-A affiliate, the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, batting near the Mendoza Line the entire season.
On November 22, 2007, Rivera signed a minor league contract that included an invitation to spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers assigned him to Jacksonville to begin the 2008 season. While at Jacksonville, Rivera began playing some first base, along with catcher, and was promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas on June 3.
Accomplishments
2004 California League Mid-Season All-Star team
2002 Northwest League Post-season All-Star team
MVP of the 2001 Excellence Tournament held in Puerto Rico
Rivera also made an appearance in the 2007 movie Disturbia, opposite Carrie Anne Moss and Shia Labeuf.
External links
The Baseball Cube Player Profile
MLB.com Player Profile
ESPN.com Player Profile
This biographical article relating to a baseball catcher is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 706/1000000
Post-expand include size: 4605/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 1461/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Rivera"
Categories: Seattle Mariners players | 1983 births | Living people | Puerto Rican baseball players | Major League Baseball catchers | San Antonio Missions players | Tacoma Rainiers players | Las Vegas 51s players | Baseball catcher stubs
Views
Article
Discussion
Edit this page
History
Personal tools
Log in / create account
if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha();
Navigation
Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Search
Interaction
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact Wikipedia
Donate to Wikipedia
Help
Toolbox
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Printable version Permanent linkCite this page
Languages
Español
This page was last modified on 7 September 2008, at 23:30.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();
