Kerb Hohl wrote:Regarding the "new Suppan" stuff, there simply are not that many good pitchers in baseball. The reason they signed Suppan, Wolf, Lohse, Garza is because their best prospects ready for the majors at those times were Chris Narveson and Claudio Vargas. We had literal garbage.
Now the Brewers have "solid" MLB depth so they didn't feel completely in need of going out and spending on a Cobb or an Arrieta which could turn into the next 4 year fan-bitchfest about the contract.
I still think that Chacin will turn it around, but if he doesn't, I'd advise all to take a look around the majors and try to find a team that doesn't have a pitcher on its staff making $7+ million/year for more than a year that doesn't suck. Brewers fans act like this is some isolated incident. It happens to everyone, especially with pitchers which can be so fickle.
The only teams that don't have a Garza-esque deal on their books or just recently got off of it are either a team like the Yankees that don't have to worry about dumping half of their farm system in for Sonny Gray or some team that struck complete gold in the prospect bin.
The Brewers' pitching 5-10 years ago was so crappy that if they wanted to compete (and yes, Mark did), they'd have to go the route of singing a Kyle Lohse. It may be better now, but the only better options are trading away your entire farm system for Chris Archer (currently getting owned), taking a risk on Alex Cobb, or putting Burnes up there today (or Hader) - both of which might be better ideas in theory rather than practice.
I got why Stearns took a look at Chacin, with sneaky good numbers over several years and a slider that they thought could be featured even more. It's possible that he ends up being an expensive, yet good bullpen piece next year.
I wonder what is up with Chacin's velocity issues. That's not good.
Yet the Brewers seem to face them every single night....