He was signed following a year the Brewers filled rotation spots 25 times with the likes of De La Rosa, Ben Hendrickson, Zach Jackson, Dana Eveland, Rick Helling, Villy, and Geremi Gonzalez (no-wammy-no-wammy-stop). On balance, those starts were pretty awful and cost the 2006 team badly. Nothing wrong with getting 6 IP @ 3 ER consistently to replace that awful production ... from a guy you could pretty much count on not to get hurt. "Suppan is one of only 7 ballplayers who pitched in the NL in 2007 who won at least 12 games in each year from 2004-07, the others being Carlos Zambrano, Greg Maddux, Roy Oswalt, Tim Hudson, Derek Lowe, and Jason Marquis." (wikipedia) We all know Suppan isn't great, but isn't he almost the definition of SP reliability?