Garth Brooks Teaming Up With MLB
Major League Baseball has announced a league-wide initiative by all 30 MLB Clubs and more than four dozen Major League players to support childhood hunger prevention and battle food insecurity.
The initiative, called “Home Plate Project,” is in partnership with Garth Brooks’ Teammates For Kids Foundation (TFK) and Big League Impact, which was founded by St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright and is supported by Minnesota Twins pitcher Kyle Gibson. Garth said,
“Teammates for Kids started with 67 baseball players 20 years ago, and as we look forward, we are excited to launch this project with ballplayers from every MLB team to help fight childhood hunger. The Home Plate Project is special for Teammates for Kids because it incorporates our founding principles of teaming up with athletes who have a passion for helping kids, such as Adam Wainwright and Kyle Gibson who help kids around the world through Big League Impact. The beauty of it all, 100% of the money that is getting donated to this effort will feed children in local communities.”
“Home Plate Project” includes an overall $900,000 commitment, including $300,000 from MLB players, to help individual Club charities support local groups dedicated to fighting childhood hunger.
Clubs will fund efforts with local food organizations, or local affiliates of national organizations, to distribute food and non-perishables to children in need throughout the United States and in Canada.
The initiative is expected to reach a minimum of 25,000 children providing more than 3.6 million meals.
Here is the list of player ambassadors for each MLB Club:
ARI – Nick Ahmed & Luke Weaver
ATL – Brian McCann & Mark Melancon
BAL – Trey Mancini & Chris Davis
BOS – Nate Eovaldi & Mitch Moreland
CHC – Steve Cishek & Daniel Descalso
CWS – Jon Jay & James McCann
CIN – Tucker Barnhart & Curt Casali
CLE – Jason Kipnis
COL – Daniel Murphy & Brian Shaw
DET – Tyson Ross
HOU – Will Harris & Ryan Pressly
KC – Ian Kennedy
LAA – Andrew Heaney & *Tyler Skaggs*
LAD – Clayton Kershaw & David Freese
MIA – Martin Prado
MIL – Chase Anderson
MIN – Kyle Gibson & Martín Pérez
NYM – Steven Matz & Jacob deGrom
NYY – Aaron Hicks
OAK – Stephen Piscotty & Liam Hendriks
PHI – JT Realmuto & Aaron Nola
PIT – Josh Bell & Trevor Williams
SD – Austin Hedges & Ian Kinsler
SEA – Marco Gonzales & Sam Tuivailala
SF – Tony Watson
STL – Andrew Miller & Adam Wainwright
TB – Tommy Pham & Charlie Morton
TEX – Hunter Pence & Lance Lynn
TOR – Randal Grichuk & Clayton Richard
WAS – Brian Dozier & Yan Gomes
