DETROIT -- Matthew Boyd will enter his start Saturday tied for the highest Wins Above Replacement among American League pitchers, according to FanGraphs. But that’s not a fair way to measure his overall value.

To the baseball world, the Tigers lefty is enjoying a breakout season thanks to a huge uptick in his strikeout rate. To the at-risk kids at Kingdom Home in Uganda, Boyd and his wife Ashley are helping change lives and break the chain of sex trafficking in the African country by providing girls with a safe place to live and learn.

Their work on the latter has greatly expanded this year, from helping 36 girls in one home to helping close to 90 children. They want to help more, which is why they’re hosting a fundraiser Monday night at Top Golf in Auburn Hills.

“We recently expanded and we’re able to take on more homes,” Matthew Boyd said. “So with that, our goals have expanded. The goals of this fundraiser are to raise $250,000 toward buying land and building on that piece of property to provide a safe, permanent place for these kids to grow up. We’re currently at $100,000, but that means we still have $150,000 to go.”

It’s an amazing expansion for a project that began just under a year ago with a rented house and three dozen kids at risk. The goal is not only to provide the children a safe haven, but also an avenue to education so that they can find a career.

“Kingdom Home is never going to age a child out,” Matthew Boyd said. “Right now, the oldest children in the home are 14 years old. As the years go on, whether they want to go to vocational training or university, Kingdom Home will just equip them to do whatever they want to do. The last thing we want to do is age a child out and put them at risk of going back into what was the whole goal of preventing in the first place.”

The Boyds saw the work first-hand when they visited Uganda in the offseason. But they also saw the scale of the issue, and the number of additional kids they could help.

“Getting to go last year and meet the girls in our first home was really impactful for us personally,” Ashley Boyd said. “But it also just spurred us on to want to help more children, because for every one in our home there’s countless others who are still at risk. That’s why we’re excited about this event and upcoming events to help raise more funds so that we can be able to take in more children.”

The property they’re eyeing, she said, has enough area to build six homes, housing 30-50 people each.

“We’ve already had an organization donate a well for the land,” Matthew said, “and another organization basically donate a whole farm, which is cool to make it sustainable. It’s really, really exciting for what’s to come.”

The fundraiser is open to the public. Fans who purchase a ticket will have a chance to not only mingle with Tigers players, but compete against them for prizes. A number of items will be up for silent auction.

“People are going to have the opportunity to hit golf balls with the Tigers,” Matthew said. “There’ll be a big leaguer at every bay. You get an opportunity to hit golf balls, compete against big leaguers. There’ll be some awesome prizes, awesome silent auction gifts, and it’s all going to be going toward a great cause.”

The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at bigleagueimpact.org. Anyone who can’t make it to the fundraiser but would still like to donate can log onto kingdomhome.org.