Rebuilding is all the rage in baseball now. It’s not like it’s a new idea or anything, but if you’ve read anything anywhere about baseball, you’d kinda think that everyone is doing it. And now that the Tanking Kings (Cubs, losers of 101 games in 2012, and 90+ in the season before and after, and Astros, losers of 100 or more games in three straight seasons from 2011-2013) have won the last two World Series, well, it’s proven that it can kinda work.
So this series brings two of those rebuilding teams directly into focus: the Reds and the Phillies.