Adrian Nieto, born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Florida, comes to the T-Bones following a 2017 season where he played 68 games between AA Pensacola and AAA Louisville in the Cincinnati Reds organization. In 41 games at AA, he hit three home runs and drove in 15 runs, hitting at a .250 clip. At AAA Louisville, Nieto played in 27 games and batted .204 with six RBIs. Nieto was selected in the fifth round of the 2008 Major League Draft out of American Heritage High School in Plantation, Florida by the Washington Nationals. He would see limited action following the draft, playing in eight games going 5-for-23 with the Gulf Coast Rookie League Nationals. In 2009 in 42 games in the GCL, Nieto hit .228 with 17 RBIs and then would make the jump to low A full season Hagerstown in the South Atlantic League in 2010. With the Suns he hit .195 with two homers and 14 RBIs.