Last offseason, Fox Sports Detroit announced that it would be changing its broadcast crew for the upcoming season. Mario Impemba would continue to provide play-by-play for every game, but color commentary was to be provided by some combination of Kirk Gibson, Jack Morris, and Rod Allen. The latter had been paired with Impemba as the Tigers’ everyday broadcast crew since 2002, and would now be joined by a couple of legends from the 1984 World Series team.
While the original plan was that Gibson would cover roughly a third of the games (with Allen covering significantly more than Morris), he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in April after working only a few games.