Nobody likes a rebuild. Who enjoys watching their favorite team trade away their best players only to be in the bottom of team records across the game? No one. That’s who.
But it’s a necessary process every team from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Boston Red Sox needs to go through. It’s kind of like the life cycle of a competing baseball team. New general manager Ben Cherington made the right decision to start a team rebuild with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Currently, the team’s roster was not going to compete with most of the rest of the National League Central.