Seems to be the goal. Short contracts allow the ability to plug things in with more short contracts. I'mfairly convinced this offseason is repeatable and yet the holes should be fewer next year. The year after, etc...Unless this offseason proves to have been a failure.
The cupboards may be bare but there's leftovers in the fridge. Felix is still here and I don't see any reason to assume he'll collapse at 32 or whatever. Cano and Cruz fit the short window idea, but who else? Aoki, Ianetta, Lind and the like are the guys I think DiPoto can find to plug in a few of every year as needed. Kind of like Gillick? Maybe I shouldn't go that far yet, but it's looking like that path. Except for the "screw the farm" tag others gave Gillick.
Seager, Walker, Marte, Paxton, Zunino and other youngins that came up through a flawed development system have a chance to help lengthen that window. Have any of them reached their absolute ceiling? I don't even think Seager has. Alex and DJ or others we rarely mention or haven't even discussed could be moving into a role like Marte is now in less than 3 years. Then there will start to be guys who haven't been drafted yet as well. Or signed internationally before that becomes a draft as well. They even already signed one, but of course he's not worth looking at because he doesn't hit HR. Never mind that the M's can lead the league in HR and fail to score runs above average. What were we talking about?
I'm not concerned with 2 or 3 years from now after seeing what Dipoto can do with shotgun holes simultaneously in the roster and the coinpurse.