Sunday Thoughts

Recently, Dodgers GM Ned Colletti expressed interest in adding another reliever to the bullpen. “If we’re assuming that everybody’s healthy from here on out, I would say that our top priority would be a bullpen piece, especially somebody with veteran stature," Colletti stated during a recent interview with Seth Everett and Jim Duquette.

As good as the Dodger bullpen has performed thus far it's hard to believe that Colletti feels the need to further improve in that area.

However, in the past week the Dodgers have lost Ronald Belisario and Jonathan Broxton for the immediate future. Additionally, questions surrounding last year's stud, Hong-Chih Kuo, continue to loom further casting a shadow of uncertainty over the relief corps. They'll all be back, sure; however, like every stock broker will tell you, "past performance is not indicative of future results."

Colletti goes on to add, "The number of [starting pitching] names that have been tossed around out there that we’ve made contact with clubs that would definitively make our starting rotation better…it’s a very, very short list. It might be a longer list in the bullpen."

When healthy, you'd be hard pressed to find a better bullpen in all of baseball. But remember, they have to stay healthy. Given the uncertainty regarding several key members acquiring a solid bullpen arm might not be the worst thing the Dodgers could do. There certainly are others traps out there to be avoided.