Rangers pitcher Keone Kela is set to visit two Major League Baseball Development Centers in China, where he will work with student-athletes to promote the game in Shanghai. The trip begins Saturday and will take course over a week and a half.
The trip is part of a continued effort that MLB began in 2003 to promote baseball in China. Kela, who will visit development centers in Wuxi and Nanjing as well as the Dongshan School in the Jiangning District, Nanjing City, will be accompanied by Rick Dell, MLB's director of baseball development in Asia, and Simon Huang, MLB Development Center manager of business operations, as well as other members of the program's staff.