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Not necessarily. They simply saved their money until such time that they felt it would be needed. The 4 year period for the minimum spend is 2013 to 2016. There was little reason for them to spend money earlier in that period when they were years away from competing and when they were drafting high every year. Now that the draft has yielded some pretty good young talent and they have more pieces in place, they set themselves up nicely to add to that free agents.
If you are going to rebuild, that's the way to do it IMO. Save your FA money, draft talent and then hopefully if you hit on that talent, you can pair young players with cheap contracts with more expensive vets. Malik Jackson is in his prime and so can grow with the rest of that young talent. So you pay him a ton now while you are paying Bortles, Robison, and Hurns peanuts and in 4 or 5 years time, you can get rid of Jackson or sign him to a more modest new deal reflective of his being 30 or 31 while you give the big money to the cheap young talent.
The Jackson deal has very little chance of being an issue provided Jackson remains healthy and plays like he always has because he is getting paid big money at a time when the other emerging talent on the team is relatively cheap.
