Rays reliever Chad Bradford will be sidelined for three to four months after undergoing elbow surgery, the team said on Monday. After feeling discomfort in his elbow this offseason, Bradford told the team and eventually visited Dr. James Andrews in Alabama. Tampa Bay did add a number of arms to their bullpen this offseason, which should help soften the blow. "One of the things that was most important for us going into this winter was to have a number of candidates for the bullpen," vice president Andrew Friedman said. "Injuries happen; they're part of the game. That was an area that we felt like we had some exposure early in the winter, so we aggressively addressed that, in our mind, and we feel like we've got a lot of fairly capable candidates and some very good pitchers who won't make our team."