Irving has played three years of professional baseball. The backstop spent the 2016 season with Sussex County in the Can-Am League. In a career-high 45 games, he totaled 15 RBI, 12 runs, five doubles and one triple. The New York native played with Single-A Hillsboro in the Arizona Diamondbacks the prior two seasons. He batted .276 during the 2015 campaign with 10 RBI, six runs, three doubles and a .378 on-base percentage. The 24-year-old was originally drafted by the Diamondbacks in the 34th round of the 2014 amateur draft.