Tanking Tiers: Ranking MLB's rebuilders

Before the season, my projection system forecasted nine teams to win fewer than 75 games. With three weeks left in the 2018 season, eight of those teams are on track to win fewer than 70 games. The ninth team is the Atlanta Braves. For the non-Braves teams on the list, this is the harsh reality of the rebuilding cycle. You might hold out hopes for an Atlanta-like breakout, but those wonderful stories are exceptional because those teams are, well, the exceptions. For the others, you knew you were probably going to lose big, and now that you have, you turn your attention to next year, hoping to be 2019's version of the Braves, or perhaps the Oakland Athletics. Let's run through the clubs that are rebuilding at least to some degree, entered the season as a rebuilder, or will exit the season with the specter of a rebuild looming. Seventeen of baseball's 30 teams fall under one of those descriptions. I've divided the teams into...

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