First off, thanks for all you contribute on here. I sincerely love your posts and the thought/research that go into each post. You are awesome.
What makes you think we are at the end of our tanking? I respectfully disagree. We have a franchise catcher, but no SS or infield, SP is thin at best, no CF (plenty of corner OFers). Elias passing on Lawlar was very telling IMO. Until the team is sold, there will be no greenlight to compete and the moves he makes backs that up. I would anticipate a trade of Mancini or Means and a comment in the offseason similar to Jose Iglesias "We just aren't as far along in the rebuild as we had hoped after careful evaluation, blah blah blah".
Could I be wrong? Absolutely. But I don't think we are close at all to competing in the AL East. Not even remotely close.