NASHVILLE — While the Red Sox have yet to make a major move, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said Monday the club’s top priority this offseason remains bolstering the starting rotation.

They could add starters through free agency, through a trade, or both. They could add two starters, just one, or even three or more. If they go the free agent route, Breslow said they’re comfortable making the kind of investment it will take to land a big fish. If they go for a trade, they’re also willing to part with some of their top position player prospects if it means reeling in someone with multiple years of team control.

Given Boston’s roster situation, those potential external reinforcements are likely to make the biggest impact, but Breslow also made it clear he hopes the Red Sox can start producing more internal reinforcements as well.

Since starting with the Red Sox in late October, Breslow has already taken meaningful steps to revamp the organization’s pitching program, hiring a new pitching coach as well as a new director of pitching who will work with both the big league pitching staff as well as the organization’s minor league arms.

Though the Red Sox lack any starting pitching prospects likely to make an impact in the majors this year, Breslow believes that with the right program, help could start coming from unexpected places.

“The benefits of a pitching development infrastructure is pitching prospects emerge, and guys that we’re not counting on right now take a step forward and we’re having a very different conversation in six or 12 months,” Breslow said.

Building a reliable pipeline of homegrown arms is exactly how Breslow made his name as an executive in the first place. Shortly after joining the Chicago Cubs following his 12-year big league career, Breslow built up a system that helped the Cubs pitching development program go from one of the worst in baseball to one of the best. A wave of impactful arms soon materialized, helping accelerate Chicago’s rebuild and getting the Cubs back into playoff contention years ahead of schedule.

Considering Boston’s own struggles developing homegrown starting pitchers dating back more than a decade, a major overhaul is long overdue.

A revamped pitching program won’t just help prospects like Wikelman Gonzalez and Luis Perales reach their potential, it will help the young arms on Boston’s big league staff as well. Guys like Garrett Whitlock, Tanner Houck and Kutter Crawford, all of whom have succeeded at the MLB level, but have yet to prove themselves as full-time starting pitchers.

Despite their ups and downs, Breslow believes all three could still carve out a place in the rotation.

“We think they have starter upside, we’re going to build them out as starters, we obviously are putting the finishing touches on our pitching infrastructure and that group is aligned with the way that I see it,” Breslow said. “All the guys you mentioned have the ability to get through a lineup multiple times, have the platoon-neutrality to get righties and lefties out, I think there’s pitch usage optimization opportunities for us but I feel like there’s real starter upside in all of those guys.”

Veterans like Chris Sale, who Breslow said is as healthy as he’s been in years, and Nick Pivetta, who Breslow said will build up as a starter this spring, also stand to benefit from the club’s new pitching program. No matter who it is, Breslow hopes that with the right system in place they’ll start seeing better results across the board.

“The goal of pitching is to prevent runs from being scored, and I think you can do that by generating swings and misses, limiting walks and managing hard contact,” Breslow said. “And we have to work backwards from that.”

If Breslow pulls it off it’ll go a long way towards helping the Red Sox break their decade-long cycle of peaks and valleys, but in the short-term Boston still needs help. The problem is everyone needs pitching and the arms available aren’t cheap, so if the Red Sox don’t pounce soon they risk being the last man standing when the music stops.

For now the pitching market is still percolating beneath the surface, but it won’t be long before things start boiling over. When that happens, Breslow said the Red Sox will be ready.

“It could be a single domino that needs to fall or it could be a number of those. We’re obviously engaged on multiple fronts and for us we’re trying to run our own race,” Breslow said. “Identify the guys we think can provide value and help us in ’24 and beyond, and stick to that.”