Rihanna dating LA Dodger

It’s a new year and a new man for Rihanna.

The 21-year-old was snapped frolicking in a hot tub with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, at a luxury resort in Cabo San Lucas, yesterday.

According to HollywoodLife.com, the 25-year-old baseball star accompanied the Russian Roulette singer to Abu Dhabi, where she performed at the Emirates Palace on New Years Eve, before jetting off to Mexico. Onlookers said: “[They] couldn’t keep their hands off of each other,” adding that once back on their patio the pair “kept kissing while gazing out over the ocean.”

And from the way Kemp has described his ideal woman, it sounds as though Rihanna is a perfect match for him,

“Independent, pretty and got to have good teeth too,” he told Yahoo! Sports in September. “That’s the most part, independent. Somebody who can go off and do their own thing and not have to worry about me all the time.”

The relationship is one of the first for Ri-Ri, who has previously been linked to actor Tristan Wilds and rapper Drake, since separating from former beau Chris Brown, 10 months ago.

Click on the thumbnails after the jump to check out pics of the canoodling couple…