Detroit Tigers

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Detroit Tigersfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Detroit Tigers has passed down, steadiest first. The SS room is their most stable — 18 holders across 126 years, a new one every 7 on average.

1. SS18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1901–2026 · one every 7y
   Kid Elberfeld1901–1903→Charley O'Leary1904–1912→Donie Bush1908–1921→Jackie Tavener1921–1928→Topper Rigney1922–1925→Billy Rogell1930–1939→Johnny Lipon1942–1952→Eddie Lake1946–1950→Harvey Kuenn1952–1959→Chico Fernandez1960–1963→Ed Brinkman1971–1974→Alan Trammell1977–1996→Deivi Cruz1997–2001→Shane Halter2000–2003→Ramon Santiago2002–2013→Carlos Guillén2004–2011→Jhonny Peralta2010–2013→Javier Báez2022–2026
2. 2B18 holders · 17 handoffs · 1905–2018 · one every 6.3y
   Germany Schaefer1905–1909→Jim Delahanty1909–1912→Ralph Young1915–1921→Charlie Gehringer1924–1942→Marty McManus1927–1931→Eddie Mayo1944–1948→Jerry Priddy1950–1953→Frank Bolling1954–1960→Dick McAuliffe1960–1973→Jake Wood1961–1967→Jerry Lumpe1964–1967→Lou Whitaker1977–1995→Tony Phillips1990–1994→Damion Easley1996–2002→Omar Infante2002–2013→Placido Polanco2005–2009→Jose Iglesias2013–2018→Ian Kinsler2014–2017
3. 1B20 holders · 19 handoffs · 1907–2026 · one every 6y
   Claude Rossman1907–1909→George Burns1914–1917→Lu Blue1921–1927→Dale Alexander1929–1932→Hank Greenberg1930–1946→Rudy York1934–1945→Walt Dropo1952–1954→Earl Torgeson1955–1957→Norm Cash1960–1974→Jason Thompson1976–1980→Dave Bergman1984–1992→Cecil Fielder1990–1996→Tony Clark1995–2001→Robert Fick1998–2002→Carlos Pena2002–2005→Dmitri Young2002–2006→Miguel Cabrera2008–2023→Prince Fielder2012–2013→Niko Goodrum2018–2021→Spencer Torkelson2022–2026
4. C23 holders · 22 handoffs · 1906–2026 · one every 5.3y
   Boss Schmidt1906–1911→Oscar Stanage1909–1925→Larry Woodall1920–1929→Johnny Bassler1921–1927→Ray Hayworth1926–1938→Mickey Cochrane1934–1937→Birdie Tebbetts1936–1947→Bob Swift1944–1953→Frank House1950–1961→Red Wilson1954–1960→Bill Freehan1961–1976→John Wockenfuss1974–1983→Milt May1976–1979→Lance Parrish1977–1986→Matt Nokes1986–1990→Mike Heath1986–1990→Mickey Tettleton1991–1994→Brad Ausmus1996–2000→Ivan Rodriguez2004–2008→Alex Avila2009–2017→James McCann2014–2018→Jake Rogers2019–2026→Dillon Dingler2024–2026
5. 3B28 holders · 27 handoffs · 1901–2026 · one every 4.5y
   James Casey1901–1902→Bill Coughlin1904–1908→George Moriarty1909–1915→Ossie Vitt1912–1918→Bob Jones1917–1925→Fred Haney1922–1925→Marv Owen1931–1937→Don Ross1938–1945→Pinky Higgins1939–1946→Billy Hitchcock1942–1953→George Kell1946–1952→Fred Hatfield1952–1956→Ray Boone1953–1958→Reno Bertoia1953–1962→Bubba Phillips1955–1964→Steve Boros1957–1962→Eddie Yost1959–1960→Don Wert1963–1970→Aurelio Rodriguez1971–1979→Tom Brookens1979–1988→Darrell Evans1984–1988→Darnell Coles1986–1990→Travis Fryman1990–1997→Scott Livingstone1991–1994→Dean Palmer1999–2003→Brandon Inge2001–2012→Jeimer Candelario2017–2022→Colt Keith2024–2026
6. DH2 holders · 1 handoff · 2011–2018 · one every 4y
   Victor Martinez2011–2018→J.D. Martinez2014–2017

+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.