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Detroit Tigers (54-57)
Founded: 1901
2014 record: 90-72 (1st in AL Central Division)
Twitter followers: 702,177
Instagram followers: 334,513
Owner: Mike Ilitch
Worth: $4.8 billion (with family)
Source of wealth: Co-founded Little Caesars pizza chain with wife, Marian, in 1959. Also owns the Detroit Red Wings.
Team price: Ilitch paid $85 million to Domino?s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan in August 1992.
Team value: $1.125 billion
Revenue: $254 million
Operating income: $20.7 million loss
Payroll: $172.9 million
Largest contract: 1B Miguel Cabrera, $428 million (2008-15 contract and 2016-23 extension, not including option years). Salary this season is $22 million. Largest 2015 contract is $28 million for P Justin Verlander.
Stadium: Comerica Park
Owner: Detroit-Wayne County Stadium Authority
Naming rights: Comerica Bank is paying $66 million over 30 years in a deal signed in 1998.
Seats: 41,574
Opened: 2000
Stadium cost: $326 million
Funding sources: $86 million in stadium authority bonds paid off by rental car and hotel room taxes; $40 million from the Downtown Development Authority; $55 million from the Michigan Strategic Fund; $145 million from Ilitch family financing.
2014 attendance: 2,917,209 (7th in MLB)
Average ticket price: $29
Concessionaire: Buffalo-based Delaware North Sportservice
Overall wins-losses: 9,065-8,776
Playoff appearances: 16 seasons
Championships: 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984
Local broadcast rights: Fox Sports Detroit, owned by Fox Broadcasting Co., pay the Tigers an estimated $50 million annually for the right to air their games under a 10-year deal that reportedly ends after the 2017 season under a 10-year deal announced in 2008. Local Tigers telecasts averaged a 7.72 viewership rating in 2014, second only to St. Louis (7.89) in all of MLB.
Sources: Forbes.com, Baseball-Reference.com, ballpark.org, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN.com, Sports Business Daily, Kaufmann.org, Wikipedia, Crain?s research.
Founded: 1901
2014 record: 90-72 (1st in AL Central Division)
Twitter followers: 702,177
Instagram followers: 334,513
Owner: Mike Ilitch
Worth: $4.8 billion (with family)
Source of wealth: Co-founded Little Caesars pizza chain with wife, Marian, in 1959. Also owns the Detroit Red Wings.
Team price: Ilitch paid $85 million to Domino?s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan in August 1992.
Team value: $1.125 billion
Revenue: $254 million
Operating income: $20.7 million loss
Payroll: $172.9 million
Largest contract: 1B Miguel Cabrera, $428 million (2008-15 contract and 2016-23 extension, not including option years). Salary this season is $22 million. Largest 2015 contract is $28 million for P Justin Verlander.
Stadium: Comerica Park
Owner: Detroit-Wayne County Stadium Authority
Naming rights: Comerica Bank is paying $66 million over 30 years in a deal signed in 1998.
Seats: 41,574
Opened: 2000
Stadium cost: $326 million
Funding sources: $86 million in stadium authority bonds paid off by rental car and hotel room taxes; $40 million from the Downtown Development Authority; $55 million from the Michigan Strategic Fund; $145 million from Ilitch family financing.
2014 attendance: 2,917,209 (7th in MLB)
Average ticket price: $29
Concessionaire: Buffalo-based Delaware North Sportservice
Overall wins-losses: 9,065-8,776
Playoff appearances: 16 seasons
Championships: 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984
Local broadcast rights: Fox Sports Detroit, owned by Fox Broadcasting Co., pay the Tigers an estimated $50 million annually for the right to air their games under a 10-year deal that reportedly ends after the 2017 season under a 10-year deal announced in 2008. Local Tigers telecasts averaged a 7.72 viewership rating in 2014, second only to St. Louis (7.89) in all of MLB.
Sources: Forbes.com, Baseball-Reference.com, ballpark.org, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN.com, Sports Business Daily, Kaufmann.org, Wikipedia, Crain?s research.
