Scrivener was called up to the Detroit Tigers in September 1975 and remained with the club through the end of the 1977 season.

Scrivener is the nephew of the late Jack Crouch who played for the Saint Louis Browns and Cincinnati Reds between 1930 and 1933.

[2] He next attended the Community College of Baltimore, where he was selected as the first-team shortstop on the 1968 Tri-State Conference Baseball All Star Team.

[4] Scrivener was described by Detroit sports writer Jim Hawkins as "the forgotten man in the Tigers' farm system, forever playing second-string behind each new promising shortstop that came along.

[4] His performance helped Evansville win the Junior World Series title and earned him a shot with the Tigers in September 1975.

I was just trying to keep myself from being too excited, but I couldn't keep the smile off my face.."[7] Scrivener appeared in a total of 80 games in 1976, including 38 starts at second base and 28 at shortstop.

He compiled a .221 batting average and a .282 on-base percentage with seven doubles, a triple, and two home runs.

[8] Scrivener later recalled: "I never was a great ball player, but I wasn't a bad employee.

In his final season of professional baseball, he appeared in 92 games for the Evansville Triplets, compiling a .262 batting average with 21 doubles, three triples, nine home runs, and 46 RBIs.

[4] In December 1978, Scrivener received a telephone call from Bill Lajoie advising that he had been released by the Tigers.

"[8] Scrivener signed with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979, but he injured his knee and never appeared in a game.