He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs.

[2] Early in life, his family moved to Kissimmee, Florida, where he played baseball at Osceola High School.

[8] For the season, he played in 128 games between Tulsa and the Triple–A Oklahoma City Dodgers and hit .309/.362/.533 with 24 homers and 91 RBI in 393 at-bats.

[14] On August 14, Ríos hit his first two major league home runs off of Elieser Hernández of the Miami Marlins.

[16] Ríos hit the first-ever two-run home run by a batter leading off an inning in MLB history on July 29, 2020.

[17] During the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Ríos appeared in 32 games for the Dodgers, batting .250/.301/.645 with eight home runs and 17 RBI in 76 at-bats.

[16] He was hitless in three at-bats with a walk in his one start in the National League Wild Card Series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

[16] However, his season ended on May 11, when the Dodgers announced that he would undergo season-ending surgery on a partially torn labrum in his right shoulder.

[19] Ríos began the 2022 season on the major league roster,[20] appearing in 27 games and hitting .244 with seven homers and 17 RBI.

When Ríos finally returned in mid-August there was no longer a spot on the major league club and he spent the rest of the season with Oklahoma City.

[22] Ríos signed a one year, $1 million, Major League contract with the Chicago Cubs on February 17, 2023.