“I’d like to add more,” general manager Perry Minasian said from the Winter Meetings on Monday. “We’d like to continue.”

Minasian said the average big league team used more than 13 starters last season, so there’s no reason to stop with the two they’ve added this winter: Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah.

That’s particularly true because Rodriguez and Manoah are both, as Minasian admits, gambles.

Neither has pitched in the majors since 2024. Rodriguez was injured all of last season. Manoah pitched 10 games in the minors last season.

“There’s an element of risk,” Minasian said. “We understand that. But we felt it was worth the gamble knowing where (Manoah) is, what he’s doing. We have a plan. We’ve got to get his delivery back in place. It’s changed over the last year and a half. He’s i

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