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Yes, we know that this is taking a while! 

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 Detroit Tigers.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the American League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.

Last year, the Tigers returned to the playoffs in a what was considered a surprise.  They won 86 Games, and made it to the second round, losing to Cleveland in five games in the Divisional Series.  Despite the success, there were no new entrants, but one return based on the new algorithm.

As always, we present our top five, which saw some significant changes.

1. Ty Cobb

2. Al Kaline

3. Charlie Gehringer

4. Harry Heilmann

5. Hal Newhouser

You can find the entire list here.

The top five saw some major changes.  Charlie Gehringer went from #4 to #3 and Harry Helmann went from #6 to #4.  This knocked Miguel Cabrera off the top five, as he went from #5 to #6.

With the new algorithm, Carlos Guillen returns to the list.  He is ranked #49.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2023 revision of our top 50 Detroit Tigers.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Tigers had a made year failed to make the playoffs and there were no new entries to the Top 50.  Only one active player was on the list, but his rank did not change, but nevertheless we always acknowledge that we took 2023 into consideration.

As always, we present our top five, which (obviously) saw no changes:

1. Ty Cobb

2. Al Kaline

3. Hal Newhouser

4. Charlie Gehringer

5. Miguel Cabrera

You can find the entire list here.

Cabrera, who retired after the season, stayed at #5.

We thank you for your continued support for our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

5. Hal Newhouser

Hal Newhouser played 15 of his 17 Hall of Fame seasons in Detroit where the highlight was winning the elusive Pitcher’s Triple Crown in 1945.  To say that this was a magical season might be an understatement as he won the MVP (becoming the first Pitcher to duplicate that as he won it the year before) and pitched his team into a World Series Championship in 1945.