Tigers suffer fourth-biggest attendance decline in MLB

The Detroit Tigers, certainly, are in full rebuild mode.

But there's one thing they won't soon have to upgrade — the turnstiles at Comerica Park. They didn't get much use this year.

The Tigers saw a significant drop in attendance in 2018, down nearly a half-million fans from the 2017 season. The drop of 464,629 was the fourth-steepest decline in all of Major League Baseball.

The Tigers, who finished the season 64-98 — fifth-worst in baseball — averaged 23,212 fans for their 81 home games, in the bottom third of MLB teams. That included 80 gates, as there was one traditional doubleheader.

Their total attendance of 1,856,970 was their lowest since 2003; that was the year they lost an American…