We all know the story of the 2018 bullpen by now. You no longer need the preamble rattling off their dreadful numbers. It was full Murphy’s Law last season. Free agent acquisitions Greg Holland, Luke Gregerson, and Brett Cecil performed as badly as any reasonable person could have expected. The same was true for Tyler Lyons coming off of a splendid 2017. Bud Norris quickly established himself as one of the most reliable arms... and then imploded when they needed him the most.
One of the mid-season charges of the front office was to fix the mess.