Interesting but not relevant. I'll ask again, what pitcher on the current 40-man is a waiver wire pickup?
Not that I think it's super important. If anything, it's a bit more damning, to pay cash to jump out in front before a player of the caliber they wind up with is exposed to waivers, or trade a prospect of any value for one of them.
Still, for all the roster churn and the gnashing of teeth here on TD, the current state of the roster is that none of the waiver wire pickups is responsible for the continuing weakness of the bullpen (or back end of the rotation). I just thought it was an interesting datapoint / factoid.
Don't blame the waiver wire pickups. Blame the fact that more significant pickups haven't been made.