All of those changes are going to lead back to the cluttered 40-man roster. Jenifer Langosch covered some FAQs for the St. Louis Cardinals offseason, and it makes things extremely clear. Some changes are certainly coming.
I know that the playoffs are going on, and nothing can even happen until five days after the final game of the World Series, but that does not cancel out the importance of planning. There are a lot of decisions to be made, and the front office needs to use this extra time to make the right ones in order to return to postseason baseball.