Tigers players will join in the giving spirit on Dec. 9, when catcher James McCann, center fielder Anthony Gose and left-hander Kyle Lobstein will travel to the team's academy in the Dominican Republic to meet children and staff from Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, a Christian mission that cares for orphaned and abandoned kids in the Caribbean and Latin America while trying to provide a permanent family and home.
In addition to leading a tour of the academy, the players will join with members of the Tigers' international operations department to give kids more than 300 pieces of baseball equipment, T-shirts, cleats and shoes to support the charity's youth baseball program.