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You can't just add relievers to the bigs, they have to be placed on the 40 man.  Bawcom is not on the 40 man, so we'd have to kick somebody off it to get him on (well not really, since Montero is on a 50 game suspension, but you know what I mean).
So you can't run mid-season callups because you have to kick farmhands off the list and leave them able to be stolen by other clubs.  We could kick Ruffin off, but he's still moderately interesting and might be a bullpen option himself now that he remembers how to throw a strike (we moved him to the rotation for just that purpose this year).  We could dump Noesi, but someday he might figure out how to get guys out with runners on.  Anthony Fernandez is still a decent AA starter with some potential.  Maurer and Beavan are filling purposes on the big-league club.  LaFromboise struggled in the bigs, big-time, but has LOOGY possibilities...
It's hard to make 40-man cuts, and we need to add even more guys in the offseason to it.  Can't be adding to that by messing around with tertiary relievers to try to patch a couple week problem.  The rosters expand in September and I expect several bullpen arms to see time, guys like Carson Smith and Tyler Burgoon among others, in a head-start on Spring Training.  We have a LOT of arms in the mix for the bullpen next year.
This year's pen is gonna have to figure it out with the assembled pieces already on the 40-man.  There aren't enough worthless players left on the 40 to throw overboard for trials.  One of the side benefits of having a much better farm system: 40-man placeholders are harder to come by.
~G