Jared Oliva
American baseball player
Jared Cole Oliva (born November 27, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.
Amateur career
Oliva attended Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, California. As a senior, he hit .325 with 11 stolen bases. Undrafted in the 2013 MLB draft, he enrolled at the University of Arizona where he walked on to the Wildcats baseball team.
Oliva redshirted his freshman year at Arizona in 2014. In 2015, as a redshirt freshman, he appeared in 43 games in which he hit .272 with one home run and twenty RBIs. That summer, he played in the Northwoods League for the Wisconsin Woodchucks. As a redshirt sophomore in 2016, he batted .239 with four home runs, 34 RBIs, and 13 stolen bases over seventy games. That summer, he returned to play for the Woodchucks, batting .272 with two home runs in 30 games.
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