For the third consecutive year, Tigers players will wear their personalities on their backs when they don special jerseys for Players¡¯ Weekend, Friday through Sunday during their series in Minnesota. This year¡¯s jerseys are monochromatic versions of their regular jerseys, but the names on the back are customized by each player.

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Here¡¯s a list of the nicknames and other selections the Tigers will wear:

Gordon Beckham: ¡°GORDO¡±

Matthew Boyd: ¡°MATTY B¡±

Jeimer Candelario: ¡°CANDY¡±

Harold Castro: ¡°CASTY¡±

Though Castro¡¯s nickname sounds like it could apply to a certain recent former Tiger, Nicholas Castellanos never used it. He used ¡°NICK¡± for his ¡°nickname¡± every Players¡¯ Weekend.

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Jose Cisnero: ¡°GUI¡±

Brandon Dixon: ¡°BANDIT¡±

¡°That was kind of an accidental nickname,¡± teammate John Hicks explained. ¡°One day we were sitting on the bench together, and [bench coach Steve] Liddle looked over and goes, ¡®Dixie!¡¯ Me and Dixon both looked over, because Dixie [sounds like] Hicksy.¡±

Realizing the confusion, Liddle called out Dixon¡¯s first name, but in his Tennessee accent.

¡°He goes, ¡®Bandon,¡¯¡± Hicks said. ¡°And I¡¯m like, ¡®Did he just call you Bandit?¡¯¡±

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Buck Farmer: ¡°GEORGE¡±

George is actually Farmer¡¯s first name. His middle name is Runie.

Niko Goodrum: ¡°STINCHCOMB¡±

Goodrum will wear the last name of his great-grandmother, a lifelong baseball fan who would keep score of Braves games while watching or listening back home in College Park, Ga.

¡°Huge baseball fan,¡± Goodrum said. ¡°She was a die-hard Braves fan, but she was my biggest fan. She died in 2014, so I didn¡¯t get to the big leagues [before that], but she can have her own jersey now. I¡¯ll frame that jersey.¡±

John Hicks: ¡°JAZZ¡±

¡°When I was a kid, anytime music would come on, I would start dancing,¡± Hicks explained. ¡°It started out like, ¡®You¡¯re a little jazz man. You¡¯ve got the moves.¡¯ And then, it just got shortened to Jazz. When I¡¯m back home in Virginia, probably 80 percent of the people that I¡¯m close with at home call me that.¡±

Eduardo Jimenez: ¡°JIMMY¡±

Joe Jimenez: ¡°JO JO¡±

Jordy Mercer: ¡°THE ROOK¡±

Mercer¡¯s nickname dates back to his collegiate career at Oklahoma State.

¡°I was one of the few freshmen that played, and the coaches just started calling me The Rook,¡± Mercer said. ¡°The players caught on. A lot of guys today, when I go back there, will still call me Rook.¡±

Daniel Norris: ¡°D. NO¡±

Nick Ramirez: ¡°RAMMER¡±

Victor Reyes: ¡°VIC¡±

Ronny Rodriguez: ¡°EL FELINO¡±

While Rodriguez has been a pro baseball player for eight years, he¡¯s also a singer and rapper in his native Dominican Republic. ¡°El Felino¡± is his stage name, but it comes from a term fans in the Dominican would use to describe his cat-like instincts in the field.

Jake Rogers: ¡°ROG¡±

Gregory Soto: ¡°CAPIRO¡±

Spencer Turnbull: ¡°ORANGE BULL¡±

Turnbull¡¯s nickname is actually ¡°Red Bull,¡± due to his hair color, but he couldn¡¯t go with that given the energy drink of the same name.

Drew VerHagen: ¡°DUTCH¡±

Last year, VerHagen used ¡°Vergy,¡± the nickname his summer ball coach gave him in seventh grade. This time, he went with a nickname he received at Double-A Erie on his way up the Tigers' farm system.

¡°Vergy¡¯s my nickname; everyone calls me that,¡± VerHagen said. ¡°But Dutch was my nickname in Double-A for a while, just because of my last name, Dutch heritage. Our manager there, Chris Cron, called me that. I liked it, and it stuck for a little bit. I just figured I¡¯d switch it up a little bit, since I have a couple jerseys with Vergy.¡±

Jordan Zimmermann: ¡°J Z¡±