Detroit Tigers

126 seasons · 1901–2026 · 9,826–9,716 (.503) · 11 pennants · 4 World Series

Season by season

126 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	AL	—	63	74	.460	—	—	—
2025	AL	C	87	75	.537	2nd	758	691	Wild card
2024	AL	C	86	76	.531	3rd	682	642	Wild card
2023	AL	C	78	84	.481	2nd	661	740
2022	AL	C	66	96	.407	4th	557	713
2021	AL	C	77	85	.475	3rd	697	756
2020	AL	C	23	35	.397	5th	249	318
2019	AL	C	47	114	.292	5th	582	915
2018	AL	C	64	98	.395	3rd	630	796
2017	AL	C	64	98	.395	5th	735	894
2016	AL	C	86	75	.534	2nd	750	721
2015	AL	C	74	87	.460	5th	689	803
2014	AL	C	90	72	.556	1st	757	705	Division
2013	AL	C	93	69	.574	1st	796	624	Division
2012	AL	C	88	74	.543	1st	726	670	Pennant
2011	AL	C	95	67	.586	1st	787	711	Division
2010	AL	C	81	81	.500	3rd	751	743
2009	AL	C	86	77	.528	2nd	743	745
2008	AL	C	74	88	.457	5th	821	857
2007	AL	C	88	74	.543	2nd	887	797
2006	AL	C	95	67	.586	2nd	822	675	Pennant
2005	AL	C	71	91	.438	4th	723	787
2004	AL	C	72	90	.444	4th	827	844
2003	AL	C	43	119	.265	5th	591	928
2002	AL	C	55	106	.342	5th	575	864
2001	AL	C	66	96	.407	4th	724	876
2000	AL	C	79	83	.488	3rd	823	827
1999	AL	C	69	92	.429	3rd	747	882
1998	AL	C	65	97	.401	5th	722	863
1997	AL	E	79	83	.488	3rd	784	790
1996	AL	E	53	109	.327	5th	783	1103
1995	AL	E	60	84	.417	4th	654	844
1994	AL	E	53	62	.461	5th	652	671
1993	AL	E	85	77	.525	3rd	899	837
1992	AL	E	75	87	.463	6th	791	794
1991	AL	E	84	78	.519	2nd	817	794
1990	AL	E	79	83	.488	3rd	750	754
1989	AL	E	59	103	.364	7th	617	816
1988	AL	E	88	74	.543	2nd	703	658
1987	AL	E	98	64	.605	1st	896	735	Division
1986	AL	E	87	75	.537	3rd	798	714
1985	AL	E	84	77	.522	3rd	729	688
1984	AL	E	104	58	.642	1st	829	643	World Series
1983	AL	E	92	70	.568	2nd	789	679
1982	AL	E	83	79	.512	4th	729	685
1981	AL	E	60	49	.550	3rd	427	404
1980	AL	E	84	78	.519	4th	830	757
1979	AL	E	85	76	.528	5th	770	738
1978	AL	E	86	76	.531	5th	714	653
1977	AL	E	74	88	.457	4th	714	751
1976	AL	E	74	87	.460	5th	609	709
1975	AL	E	57	102	.358	6th	570	786
1974	AL	E	72	90	.444	6th	620	768
1973	AL	E	85	77	.525	3rd	642	674
1972	AL	E	86	70	.551	1st	558	514	Division
1971	AL	E	91	71	.562	2nd	701	645
1970	AL	E	79	83	.488	4th	666	731
1969	AL	E	90	72	.556	2nd	701	601
1968	AL	—	103	59	.636	1st	671	492	World Series
1967	AL	—	91	71	.562	2nd	683	587
1966	AL	—	88	74	.543	3rd	719	698
1965	AL	—	89	73	.549	4th	680	602
1964	AL	—	85	77	.525	4th	699	678
1963	AL	—	79	83	.488	5th	700	703
1962	AL	—	85	76	.528	4th	758	692
1961	AL	—	101	61	.623	2nd	841	671
1960	AL	—	71	83	.461	6th	633	644
1959	AL	—	76	78	.494	4th	713	732
1958	AL	—	77	77	.500	5th	659	606
1957	AL	—	78	76	.506	4th	614	614
1956	AL	—	82	72	.532	5th	789	699
1955	AL	—	79	75	.513	5th	775	658
1954	AL	—	68	86	.442	5th	584	664
1953	AL	—	60	94	.390	6th	695	923
1952	AL	—	50	104	.325	8th	557	738
1951	AL	—	73	81	.474	5th	685	741
1950	AL	—	95	59	.617	2nd	837	713
1949	AL	—	87	67	.565	4th	751	655
1948	AL	—	78	76	.506	5th	700	726
1947	AL	—	85	69	.552	2nd	714	642
1946	AL	—	92	62	.597	2nd	704	567
1945	AL	—	88	65	.575	1st	633	565	World Series
1944	AL	—	88	66	.571	2nd	658	581
1943	AL	—	78	76	.506	5th	632	560
1942	AL	—	73	81	.474	5th	589	587
1941	AL	—	75	79	.487	4th	686	743
1940	AL	—	90	64	.584	1st	888	717	Pennant
1939	AL	—	81	73	.526	5th	849	762
1938	AL	—	84	70	.545	4th	862	795
1937	AL	—	89	65	.578	2nd	935	841
1936	AL	—	83	71	.539	2nd	921	871
1935	AL	—	93	58	.616	1st	919	665	World Series
1934	AL	—	101	53	.656	1st	958	708	Pennant
1933	AL	—	75	79	.487	5th	722	733
1932	AL	—	76	75	.503	5th	799	787
1931	AL	—	61	93	.396	7th	651	836
1930	AL	—	75	79	.487	5th	783	833
1929	AL	—	70	84	.455	6th	926	928
1928	AL	—	68	86	.442	6th	744	804
1927	AL	—	82	71	.536	4th	845	805
1926	AL	—	79	75	.513	6th	793	830
1925	AL	—	81	73	.526	4th	903	829
1924	AL	—	86	68	.558	3rd	849	796
1923	AL	—	83	71	.539	2nd	831	741
1922	AL	—	79	75	.513	3rd	828	791
1921	AL	—	71	82	.464	6th	883	852
1920	AL	—	61	93	.396	7th	652	833
1919	AL	—	80	60	.571	4th	618	578
1918	AL	—	55	71	.437	7th	476	557
1917	AL	—	78	75	.510	4th	639	577
1916	AL	—	87	67	.565	3rd	670	595
1915	AL	—	100	54	.649	2nd	778	597
1914	AL	—	80	73	.523	4th	615	618
1913	AL	—	66	87	.431	6th	624	716
1912	AL	—	69	84	.451	6th	720	777
1911	AL	—	89	65	.578	2nd	831	776
1910	AL	—	86	68	.558	3rd	679	584
1909	AL	—	98	54	.645	1st	666	493	Pennant
1908	AL	—	90	63	.588	1st	647	547	Pennant
1907	AL	—	92	58	.613	1st	693	531	Pennant
1906	AL	—	71	78	.477	6th	518	598
1905	AL	—	79	74	.516	3rd	512	604
1904	AL	—	62	90	.408	7th	505	627
1903	AL	—	65	71	.478	5th	567	539
1902	AL	—	52	83	.385	7th	566	657
1901	AL	—	74	61	.548	3rd	741	694

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Detroit Tigers, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Ty Cobb	1905–1926	187.7	2,806	12,104	3,900	111	1,811	.368
Al Kaline	1953–1974	94.8	2,834	11,597	3,007	399	1,583	.297
Charlie Gehringer	1924–1942	94.7	2,323	10,237	2,839	184	1,427	.320
Harry Heilmann	1914–1929	70.3	1,991	8,390	2,499	164	1,442	.342
Lou Whitaker	1977–1995	68.9	2,390	9,967	2,369	244	1,084	.276
Sam Crawford	1903–1917	68.3	2,114	8,869	2,466	70	1,258	.309
Miguel Cabrera	2008–2023	64.3	2,077	8,724	2,332	373	1,358	.304
Hank Greenberg	1930–1946	61.6	1,269	5,586	1,528	306	1,202	.319
Bobby Veach	1912–1923	61.0	1,604	6,782	1,859	59	1,042	.311
Norm Cash	1960–1974	60.2	2,018	7,772	1,793	373	1,087	.272
Donie Bush	1908–1921	58.3	1,895	8,548	1,763	9	429	.250
Alan Trammell	1977–1996	57.0	2,293	9,375	2,365	185	1,003	.285
Bill Freehan	1961–1976	53.3	1,774	6,899	1,591	200	758	.262
Rudy York	1934–1945	41.6	1,268	5,350	1,317	239	936	.282
Dick McAuliffe	1960–1973	36.3	1,656	6,829	1,471	192	672	.249
Lance Parrish	1977–1986	34.2	1,146	4,674	1,123	212	700	.263
Willie Horton	1963–1976	33.3	1,514	5,974	1,489	262	886	.276
Chet Lemon	1982–1990	30.3	1,203	4,675	1,071	142	536	.263
George Kell	1946–1951	29.8	813	3,663	1,056	24	408	.326
Kirk Gibson	1979–1995	29.3	1,177	4,773	1,140	195	668	.273

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
George Mullin	1902–1912	54.1	428	208	173	6	3341.7	1,364	2.76
Hal Newhouser	1939–1953	51.5	460	200	148	19	2944.0	1,770	3.07
Mickey Lolich	1963–1975	48.1	508	207	175	10	3361.7	2,679	3.45
Hooks Dauss	1912–1926	43.0	538	222	182	40	3390.7	1,201	3.30
Justin Verlander	2005–2026	43.0	386	188	115	0	2548.7	2,417	3.47
Bill Donovan	1903–1918	39.1	261	140	96	3	2137.3	1,079	2.49
Tommy Bridges	1930–1946	38.4	424	194	138	10	2826.3	1,674	3.57
Dizzy Trout	1939–1951	37.3	483	160	148	33	2564.7	1,179	3.18
Frank Lary	1954–1963	28.4	298	123	108	7	1990.7	1,025	3.43
Jack Morris	1977–1990	27.0	430	198	150	0	3042.7	1,980	3.73
Earl Whitehill	1923–1932	25.9	325	133	119	7	2171.3	838	4.16
Jim Bunning	1955–1963	24.8	304	118	87	12	1867.3	1,406	3.45
Virgil Trucks	1941–1956	23.8	316	114	96	13	1800.7	1,046	3.50
Ed Killian	1904–1910	21.3	205	100	74	4	1536.7	498	2.38
Schoolboy Rowe	1933–1941	20.8	243	104	62	8	1434.7	655	4.04
Ed Willett	1906–1913	20.7	230	96	80	3	1545.7	508	2.89
Tarik Skubal	2020–2026	19.9	158	62	44	0	893.3	1,042	3.04
Ed Siever	1901–1908	19.4	143	60	53	2	1036.0	303	2.61
Fred Hutchinson	1939–1953	18.8	242	95	71	7	1464.0	591	3.73
Harry Coveleski	1914–1918	17.2	157	69	43	8	1023.3	400	2.34

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Detroit Tigers player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Ty Cobb1917 · 6 HR · 102 RBI · .383	15.7
2	Ty Cobb1911 · 8 HR · 127 RBI · .420	14.3
3	Ty Cobb1915 · 3 HR · 99 RBI · .369	12.6
4	Ty Cobb1910 · 8 HR · 91 RBI · .382	12.4
5	Ty Cobb1916 · 5 HR · 68 RBI · .371	11.7
6	Ty Cobb1909 · 9 HR · 107 RBI · .377	11.1
7	Norm Cash1961 · 41 HR · 132 RBI · .361	10.5
8	Ty Cobb1912 · 7 HR · 83 RBI · .409	10.0
9	Ty Cobb1913 · 4 HR · 67 RBI · .390	9.9
10	Bobby Veach1917 · 8 HR · 103 RBI · .319	9.7

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Hal Newhouser1946 · 26 W · 275 SO · 1.94	8.6
2	Hal Newhouser1945 · 25 W · 212 SO · 1.81	7.6
3	Bill Donovan1903 · 17 W · 187 SO · 2.29	7.0
4	Mickey Lolich1971 · 25 W · 308 SO · 2.92	6.8
5	Dizzy Trout1944 · 27 W · 144 SO · 2.12	6.7
6	Hal Newhouser1944 · 29 W · 187 SO · 2.22	6.5
7	Roscoe Miller1901 · 23 W · 79 SO · 2.96	6.4
8	George Mullin1907 · 20 W · 146 SO · 2.59	6.4
9	Hal Newhouser1947 · 17 W · 176 SO · 2.87	6.3
10	Justin Verlander2009 · 19 W · 269 SO · 3.45	6.2

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1901 to 2026. That is 126 of them, 9,826–9,716 in all, a winning percentage of .503. 4 World Series — 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1901 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1984 and 2003. The 1984 club went 104–58 (.642) and won the World Series; the 2003 club went 43–119 (.265). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Detroit Tigers careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.