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I think one of the biggest problems with the whole "Tanking" discussion is it's ill defined exactly what tanking means. The blanket statements overlook the need sometimes to objectively address where a team's is at and the best way to get them back to true competitiveness.
I think one of the biggest problems with the whole "Tanking" discussion is it's ill defined exactly what tanking means. The blanket statements overlook the need sometimes to objectively address where a team's is at and the best way to get them back to true competitiveness.
2/ Sometimes teams are just bad and the only way to make them better to is to employ a long term strategy. If teams are forced to overpay for whatever aging free agents are out there just to be marginally better they actually set themselves up for decades long playoff droughts.
3/#DBacks are perfect example of team that couldn't or wouldn't recognize their obvious long term trend line and insisted to try to eek out as many wins as possible instead of embarking on a true rebuild process. They were oft praised industry & media darlings for this approach
4/ But they still ended up with a disastrous , albeit unintentional result of 25-35 in 2020 and then 52-110 in 2021, for a combined 77-145 record. The bottom has completely fallen out, and while the farm system is improved, it's STILL a long road to recovery, let alone a pennant
5/ Every team and every situation is different. There is so much nuance to all of this. Yet the discussions don't reflect that nuance and the supposed "solutions" to address the extremely ill defined problem have all the precision of a meat cleaver.
6/ I'm fairly certain that whatever changes are put in place won't satisfy, and will certainly have massive unintended consequences.....and loopholes that some teams will manage to exploit much better than others.
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