I certainly hope it's a blip, but we'll see.Sure but it’s a blip, no? Starting in 2019, they had a rotation full of guys with long term deals, so they weren't adding without subtracting, which became hard to do with Price and Sale, and then they had all this money tied up. They should have prioritized keeping Eovaldi, but that's hindsight and brushes aside his missing time again and his future being increasingly tenuous (but probably somehow awesome anyway). Only now is the overpriced dreck all gone, the CBT reset, and the market ripe enough to take part. Last year's FA class was led by Carlos Rodon.
If their off-season of pitching additions ends up going into next season with anything approaching this:
Bello, Sale, Crawford, Seth Lugo, Sean Manaea, Tanner Houck and James Paxton that isn't nearly good enough, does nothing to address the top half of the rotation deficiencies and does nothing to help the long term prospects of the organization - at least if contending for World Series titles is still a goal.
(I don't think it's going to look like the above, because I can't imagine that FSG hired someone that will continue that mindset after seeing the disastrous on the field results for half a decade).