SEATTLE — In January 2015, ESPN published one of the first definitive opuses on the Philadelphia 76ers' controversial and revolutionary strategy to lose if not quite on purpose then certainly with purpose. Earlier that NBA season, the team's dismal record forced a reckoning around the league about whether the draft needed to be adjusted so as not to reward that kind of behavior. The proposal to do so failed, but ESPN quoted the Lakers' owner condemning the practice anyway: 'If you're in tanking mode,' Jeanie Buss said, 'I think that's unforgivable.'
Built by some of the same people who parlayed strategic losing into sustained success in Houston, the Orioles look poised to cash in a trio of 100-plus-loss seasons for a young, cost-controlled, championship-caliber team. Indeed, a year later, they're two games back in the AL East and comfortably atop the AL wild-card standings.
Before it paid off for the Astros — or even the Cubs — commissioner Rob Manfred offered his assessment of"tanking" seven years ago this week. During the 2016 All-Star availability, Manfred said, He has a point. That’s one reason tanking had a short shelf life as a truly innovative strategy: It requires 29 other teams to zig so you can zag. Beyond that, baseball has proven time and time again that a single player can’t change a franchise’s fortunes — and certainly not one who is just beginning his minor-league career. The top pick in the baseball draft is rarely, if ever, a guarantee of anything.
Because even if there were no reward for finishing last, one team would do so every year. Such is sports. And sometimes trying to win — even with impatience and the money to fund it — falls flat. Big-payroll teams run the risk of disappointing themselves and their fans and, in doing so, garner critiques about the perils of trying to rush to the finish line.
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