2026 Season · KC Roster
Comerica Park, Detroit, MI — opened 2000 · 41,083 seats. 4× champions · last 1984.
Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Detroit Tigers from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.
MLB players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the Detroit Tigers — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes.
MLB players who wore the Detroit Tigers crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises.
Every position room Detroit Tigers has passed down, steadiest first. The SS room is their most stable — 9 holders across 113 years, a new one every 8.8 on average.
Four franchise-defining careers: VAL weighted by attributed tenure share, with a bounded bump for verified Hall of Fame and recorded award evidence.
427 player-season slots overlap another club's recorded span and are credited to neither (13.5% of considered span evidence).
Monument Timeline — who held it, season by season
1901–2026 · 2 handoffs
The holder in a season is the player with the most accumulated era-adjusted value (VAL) across attributed franchise seasons through that year — whole seasons only, never a depth-chart claim. A claim needs 3+ attributed seasons; unsettled through 1902. Relocated eras carry forward with the franchise.
Most prominent 8 of 910 shown · all 910 P →
Most prominent 8 of 165 shown · all 165 C →
Most prominent 8 of 100 shown · all 100 1B →
Most prominent 8 of 112 shown · all 112 2B →
Most prominent 8 of 112 shown · all 112 3B →
Most prominent 8 of 109 shown · all 109 SS →
Most prominent 8 of 324 shown · all 324 OF →
Most prominent 8 of 11 shown · all 11 DH →
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within MLB — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1901–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
+370 more one-club men with the franchise.
+1,083 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.
134 seasons — roster, team totals and best players by VAL for each.
Best league-relative tenures in Detroit Tigers history — OPS+ / ERA+ vs each season's own league (100 = average), counting only seasons with the club. Park-unadjusted.
Hitters · OPS+
Pitchers · ERA+