There’s accusations tanking, there’s Stearns refuting said accusations and then there’s fans livid at the notion of trading away Lucroy (he is a fan favorite after all). Then-there’s me, wondering just what in the world the difference between tanking and rebuilding ACTUALLY is. So, I sought to seek out something that most would just laugh at not knowing the difference.
Like any word there are different ways to interpret the “tanking”. Generally, it’s looked as a team intentionally losing for one reason or another (in pretty much every case it’s to get the number one draft pick) and that winning in the present time doesn’t matter to them.