Jeff Suppan Retires

[BrewersSuperCollector]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/01/jeff-suppan-retires.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Bikeage77]

I'll always point to this as a signing the Brewers felt they needed to do to show they wanted to be competitive. Following that up with "One of the worst contracts in Brewers history"

[gregmag]

I hope Suppan will look up Jeffrey Hammonds, so that they can get together one evening and reminisce about their careers by the fireplace -- a fireplace in which they can burn money (just like the Brewers' front office) without even noticing it's gone (entirely unlike the Brewers' front office).

[Invader3K]

Suppan was actually ok for the first two years of his contract...it was those final two that were crippling.

 

Supposedly Melvin had a deal worked out to trade him at some point, which Attanasio nixed. I wonder how the owner felt about that decision later (if the story is even true).

[sveumrules]

If only he would have done this before game 4 of the 2008 NLDS.

[RockCoCougars]

I suppose that this move by the Suppan camp was necessary to quell the GM's constantly inquiring whether or not he was open to entertaining offers to anchor a starting rotation next year... Soup just crushed a lot of dreams.

[hawing]

I know he's a good guy, but the Brewers fan in me only thinks of this:

 

 

Play him off, Keyboard Cat.

[Funketown]

Gazpacho was the nickname that just never caught on...

[GAME05]

come on, I remember him retiring from pitching years ago.