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Originally Posted by Parallex
As is we'd have a bullpen of...
Aaron Sanchez
Brett Cecil
Liam Hendriks
Aaron Loup
Ryan Tepera
Bo Schultz
Pat Venditte
... that's assuming that Osuna moves to the rotation and nobody else is acquired. That's certainly not ideal but there are some interesting hurlers in there. I'm confident in Sanchez and Cecil (as bullpen arms), Hendriks was a revelation last year, Venditte always has the platoon advantage, Loup had his struggles but reduce his role to Loogy and the source of all his struggles last year disappears (namely a spike in power numbers by RH hitters... lefties slugged .362 against him while RH slugged .510. for perspective every RH he faced turned into Jose Bautista and every lefties was Ryan Goins). It shouldn't be hard (or expensive) to find upgrades on Tepera & Schultz.
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The bullpen will figure itself out. Spending money on it is about the stupidest thing you can do. Relievers are just so volatile from year to year. Everyone can bring up the KC model, but they didn't go out and sign a bunch of established guys. Just bring in a bunch of hard throwers into camp and hope a couple of them stick - that's really your best bet in the bullpen.