We've been discussing this concern jung, over and over again, and again you are right. You can even sign Pujols and Reyes if you want, and still you won't go anywhere without pitching. Our problem is not our offense, if you rush me, we can face next season with our current offense. IMO Lavarnway, Reddick and Kalish among others like Lowrie and Aviles can handle those offensive holes, regardless you won't clog these talent one more year. Sure, maybe you won't be the #1 offense again, but we will be fine if you balance this team with solid pitching. Our epic collapse was all about pathetic pitching and missing of depth. In fact, our rotation taxed a lot of pressure to our BP and mostly to the best offense of the league, night after night in September. We all know the results. You better Learn.
Hopefully they already have everything figured out. Would be very dumb and pathetic if they didn't notice where is damn issue. Maybe and just maybe after this move (Ortiz) and considering that they won't have that room before the LT cap in order to fill those holes in our pitching, they are planning to go over it after all.
You know what would be very but very scary, if they were very confident about Bard and probably Aceves in order to make their transition to the rotation and they built an entire BP with a bunch of looooong shot pieces, of course If they didn't bust the LT cap. That my friend, would be a scary movie that I definitely don't want to see.