Nick Castellanos

DETROIT -- As is baseball tradition, rookies are asked to dress up in an outfit picked by their teammates the day the team departs for its last road trip of the season.

For the Detroit Tigers, that day was Sunday.

When the Tigers returned to the clubhouse

, more than a half-dozen Detroit rookies found a not-so-loose-fitting outfit hanging in their locker.

There's generally a theme each year. Last year,

. This season, it was princesses and fairies. Both themes didn't disappoint.

Tigers reliever Darin Downs posted a picture of the rookies in their costumes on Instagram. Check out photo above. (From left to right: Bruce Rondon, Bryan Holaday, Hernan Perez, Jose Alvarez, Jose Iglesias, Evan Reed. Front row: Nick Castellanos.)

Al Alburquerque also snapped a picture with his novice teammates. It's posted below.

My personal favorites? Rondon, who sported a Snow White costume complete with butterfly wings, and Reed, who bore a striking resemblance to the video game character, Chun-Li, in Street Fighter.

Embarrassing? Based on the color of Reed's face as he walked around the clubhouse, absolutely. But catcher Alex Avila seemed to believe this year's rookie class got off easy.

"They have it much easier," said Avila, who was dressed by ex-Tiger Gerald Laird in 2009. "I had fishnet stockings, a rainbow-colored tutu and a cut-off fishnet shirt."

The Tigers close out the regular season this week with a three-game series at Minnesota before a final series at Miami Friday-Sunday. The rookies are expected to wear the costume for the entirety of trip from Detroit to Minneapolis.

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