Doug Melvin has absolutely no ability to identify pitching, unless its someone like CC, where its obvious to everyone that he's awesome. We've had a grand total of 4 quality starters pitchers in Melvins entire tenure here. 2 came up through the system (Sheets, Gallardo), 1 was Davis, a lucky waiver pickup who Melvin then gave away for nothing, and CC. I don't know how I should have an once of confidence that Melvin can build a pitching staff. He's been here 7 years and this is what he has built so far. All of the pitching prospects he's aquired were total flops (Cappellan, J DLR, Zack Jackson), All his FA signings are flops. His big trade aquisition, Dave Bush, has an ERA over 5 for the 2nd time in 3 years. Melvin needs to trade for pitching, but unless its for a superstar, I have no confidence he will be able to identify someone that is actually good. In all likelyhood, based on his history, Melvin will aquire a soft tossing pitcher who had a good ERA season that was built on a lucky BAPIP and great defense behind him. The pitcher will come here, regress to his means, and we'll have nothing.