Those two things aren't really related. He clearly is just throwing s%*# at the wall in hopes it sticks. Now if you consider that "panic" OK, if you consider it "needed roster churn" OK, but it's pretty obvious there's not some holistic plan that centers around anything more than "just don't set the all time loss record". And of course if finding a decent journeyman with a couple arb years left is part of that plan, great, but again, it's really just trying things to try things, which will only ever be acceptable this season and is not anything to build a GM resume on going forward.