Remember early in the offseason when the thinking was that Jed Hoyer might break from his low-cost, high-volume strategy of bullpen construction in favor of a proven name or three? Well, it’s not looking as though that’s going to happen. Though Hoyer has said all along about he’ll maintain what I call a Mississippi River approach — a mile wide and an inch deep — he indicated strongly that buying greater depth was part of the plan.
“You have to be creative in the bullpen,” Hoyer said during the GM Meetings.