page_title: List of Major League Baseball managers
section_title: Detroit Tigers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Major League Baseball managers / American League / Central Division / Detroit Tigers
caption_attribution_description: English: Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire in Baltimore on April 5, 2013.
context_page_description: Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball and is the organization that operates the National League and the American League. In 2000, the two leagues were officially disbanded as separate legal entities, and all of their rights and functions were consolidated in the commissioner's office. Since that time, Major League Baseball has operated as a single league. Major League Baseball constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada and is composed of 30 teams.
  Each team in the league has a manager, who is responsible for team strategy and leadership on and off the field. Assisted by various coaches, the manager sets the line-up and starting pitcher before each game and makes substitutions throughout the game. In early baseball history, it was not uncommon for players to fill multiple roles as player-managers; specifically, they managed the team while still being signed to play for the club. The last player-manager in Major League Baseball was Pete Rose, who began managing the Cincinnati Reds in 1984.
context_section_description: The Detroit Tigers were founded as members of the Western League in 1894, employing Bob Glenalvin as their manager. George Stallings was the team's manager from 1898 to 1901 and was the team's field boss when the Western League declared itself a major league and became the American League, thus becoming the franchise's first MLB manager. Sparky Anderson's 1,331 wins and 1,248 losses lead all Tigers managers. He is one of eight Hall of Famers to manage the club; the others include Hughie Jennings, Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Bucky Harris, Ed Barrow, Joe Gordon and Alan Trammell. Among managers who have led the team for one or more full seasons, Cochrane is the franchise leader in winning percentage (.582) and is one of four skippers to lead the team to a World Series championship. The others are Anderson, Steve O'Neill, and Mayo Smith, who each won one championship with the franchise. Jim Leyland was the manager from 2006 until he retired at the end of the 2013 season. Brad Ausmus was hired before the 2014 season and fired after the 2017 season. On October 20, 2017, Ron Gardenhire signed a three-year contract to become the 47th manager of the club.
caption: Gardenhire with the Twins
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