While the Detroit Tigers continued their losing ways during the 2018 baseball season, the club’s baseball fans were tuning them out in large numbers. The Tigers averaged a rating of 2.64 for the season, which was down 41 percent from their 4.48 rating in 2017, according to the Nielsen ratings company (as relayed by Bill Shea on Crain’s Detroit).
The rating is the lowest that the club has posted since the team lost 119 games during the 2003 season, and is down 71.3 percent over a five year period from their 2013 rating of 9.