Eovaldi getting hurt is as predictable as snow in Boston in February.Well for now that would have seemed like a good call. Probably would have saved some money too. Who would have been your 5th starter then? (Again, we didn't know that Eovaldi would get hurt, so you can't say, "Well we needed one anyway.") You'd have had Sale, Price, Porcello, ERod, and....whom?
I would have been fine going into the season with Wright, Johnson, and Velasquez competing for the 5th spot with the Shawaryan’s of the world and a couple cheap veterans on minor league contracts.