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What is your definition of "tanking" in MLB? You could maybe look at the Astros from a few years back, but that isn't something that happens every year like the tanking in the NBA.

The closest thing to tanking teams do in MLB is trading star players for a lot of prospects. If you were talking about that, I suppose it makes sense, but I assumed you meant tanking for the draft. I just don't know if I'd really count that as true tanking, especially since most of those big trades happen midseason, sometimes after a team intended to contend but ended up being out of it. Or you have teams sit veterans to bring up prospects, but that happens the most in September with expanded rosters - again, when they already know they're out of it.