The Rangers are a rebuilding team, looking to get younger and better, with only a fading chance of making the playoffs.

"This was a big accomplishment for us, being that we are a rebuilding team," Lawrence said.

None of the rebuilding teams are going to take him because of his contract.

It seems to be a characteristic of this rebuilding team in a transitional season under a veteran coach.

"He does not want to be part of a rebuilding team."

Consequently, the club's rebuilding team lost all but one member.

There's no need for me to be playing first base every day with a rebuilding team.

More than 100 men tried out for the rebuilding team, and the average age dropped.

Isiah Thomas was looking like the young, nurturing coach of a rebuilding team about to make the playoffs a few weeks ago.

A person familiar with the situation said that Nieuwendyk, 29, wants no part of playing for a rebuilding team.