Last year in July/August the Brewers were in the thick of a pennant race and did nothing to improve the team. As already mentioned, the Brewers gave up three decent arms/prospects for Linebrink in a deal that didn't work out as intended, but was a legitimate attempt to solidify one of the teams major weaknesses last year. Now, the prospects may well flame out and may look fairly even in the long run (or maybe slanted to the Brewers if they get a major prospect out of the comp picks), but in the short term, it was a bad move.