Brewers Sign Doug Davis to a 1 Year Deal

The Brewers signed a pitcher just like I wanted them to. The problem is they signed the wrong guy for too much money. Doug Davis is not a good pitcher. Why they felt the need to guarantee him $5.25 Million is beyond me but let's try to see what  they saw in Davis:

• He is an innings eater who is a good bet to make all his starts. While that helps what point is there to throwing a lot of innings if he doesn't give the team a good chance to win in those innings. Sound like someone familiar... and I thought they had learned their lesson with Braden Looper, sigh.
• He had a shiny 4.12 ERA last year. Sometimes I think Doug Melvin doesn't even looks at any other stats than ERA. You might remember something similar happening with Jeff Suppan... sigh.

Davis is basically a left handed Braden Looper. The updated rotation looks like this:


1. Gallardo
2. Wolf
3.Manny Parra
4. Davis
5. Riske/Suppan


This is probably just a one win upgrade (wow Jeff Suppan must be bad). Considering they could have gotten Joel Pineiro for just $5-7 Million more than Davis while adding maybe 4 or 5 more wins it makes this deal look even worse. And don't tell me they don't have the money, if they can pay Doug Davis $5.25 Million they can pay Pineiro $10-12 Million.


On a separate note tommorow's post about why they should sign 1 more pitcher is cancelled because of this signing. It will be replaced by a post on the prospect of trading Prince Fielder if, and only if, they don't for some reason have the money to sign him long term.


P.S. I still think to be a playoff contender they need 1 more serviceable pitcher.