To answer the question in the thread title, No. Suppan is a perfect guy to fit into a mix of essentially a very young pitching staff. All the intangibles are there. He has experience, the players respect him, and he has a proven track record. Now, if you're asking if Suppan was worth his contract, that's a different story. You could argue that question both ways, and I don't really see a clear cut answer. Without his NLCS MVP, he most likely doesn't get that contract. However, free agency was crazy over the winter, and as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. We paid for a journeyman pitcher with playoff experience. And that's exactly what we got. Of course, if he does this October what he did last October, I think you could say that he was worth every penny.