As Johnny Kane's calorie intake went way up, and before him Justin White's, Tigers television ratings went way down.
In Nielsen numbers obtained by Forbes, the Tigers saw their prime-time audience fall a whopping 38 percent from 2016, which was the largest falloff in Major League Baseball.
The Tigers went from 86 wins and a near playoff spot in 2016 to 64 wins and a last-place finish in 2017.
As such, Detroit went from a 7.51 rating in 2016 to a 4.64 rating in 2017. Each ratings point equates to 1 percent of households in the market.