Warren Newson wrote:
As a Sox fan, I have completely lost my taste for the tank and I don't want to see the team engage in another tank for at least the remainder of this decade.
Without a tank job you can reference the 2011 - 2016 seasons. no tank, just mired in mediocrity.
I get tanking sucks, but the alternative is signing washed up has-beens like Todd Frazier, Adam LaRoche, Adam Dunn. Not to mention trading for guys like James Shields...woof.
We haven't seen much more than that coming out of the tank. The division title was nice, but a division title coupled with getting totally outclassed in the first round of the playoffs doesn't equal much.