The Wilmington Blue Rocks played host to 22 year old third base prospect, Emmanuel Rivera, in the 2018 season. Rivera began 2018 as the tenth prospect in the Kansas City Royals farm system, but he fell to sixteenth by mid-season. Signed out of Puerto Rico in 2015, he has spent most of his professional career so far in the Rookie Leagues.
He played for the Lexington Legends in the 2017 season before making the jump to the Wilmington Blue Rocks, where he played in 99 games during the 2018 season.
The Statistics
Overall in his minor league career, he has tallied a slash of .