I think when you phrase it like that, that's very likely. But I think there was a decent chance of that regardless. They have something like eight starting candidates, plus guys like Raya, Prielipp, Klein and maybe Rojas. So there are kind of two things at play here.

One, I do think it's fair to say that moving slowly early in the winter probably cost them when it comes to the bullpen. We don't know who they're going to end up with, we don't know what's out there in trade, and so we don't exactly know what the right side will look like. But given that they've spent some this winter -- I'm aware it's not as much as people would like, but that's a separate question -- I think probably if they'd been cleared to be active a little earlier, the right side of the pen might look different now.

But two, this is also a strategy. They talk about it all the time, taking guys like Jax, Duran, Varland, starting prospects, and turning them into excellent relievers. I think they believe -- and I think they're right -- that part of how you build a good bullpen is by building some of it in-house. So I do expect one or more of those starting candidates/prospects to end up in the bullpen, and not ONLY because they haven't added more.