In yesterday’s Roundtable, we made our bold predictions for the 2023 Pittsburgh Pirates season.
Spoiler alert: My prediction was a winning season for the 2023 Pirates.
The Pirates haven’t been trying the last few years. It seems obvious to me that they were deliberately tanking. That word gets thrown around a lot in baseball, but what exactly is tanking?
The insinuation is that tanking is a deliberate act to lose games. I think what we’ve seen from the Pirates is that tanking isn’t so much an attempt to lose games, but instead a complete lack of attempt to win games.