Detroit ― Is the Tigers' home ballpark about to get a new name in 2026?

That would seem like a distinct possibility, given the major news from the financial world Monday morning, when Fifth Third Bancorp announced that it was preparing to purchase Comerica in a $10.9 billion deal . The acquisition is expected to close early in 2026, before Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season.

Comerica Bank, founded as the Detroit Savings Fund in the 1800s and headquartered in Detroit until moving to Dallas in 2007, has held the naming rights of the Tigers' stadium, Comerica Park, since it opened in 2000. That deal marked the first stadium naming rights in franchise history.

Two years before the ballpark opened, Comerica Bank signed a 30-year, $66 million deal with the Tigers for the namin

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