In baseball, the word “rebuild” can bring about a wave of distressing emotions. It’s a morbid look into the immediate future of a team. The idea of scrapping the current arrangement and implementing an entirely new plan. The Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros both resorted to such measures to get to where they are now.
This generally means a losing team is setting itself up to lose even more over the next few years. It’s all with the expectation that better days are on the way, but not without an agonizing depravity of success for at least a short period of time.