Brewers were in a pennant race last year and needed to shore up the bullpen to see if they could win the NL Central Division title. I know it has been a long time since the Brewers have been a contender, but when you have a chance you have to try and improve your team if you can. Melvin went out and got the best setup man he could to help the team. To get talent you have to give up something, and in this case it cost the Brewers 3 arms. I dont think any of these arms would make or break the Brewers future. Inman's talent is starting to level off as he gets to the upper levels and looks to be at best a #4 starter, personally I think he will be a long man/ spot starter when all is said and done. He does not have the stuff to get him in the rotation as a regular.Garrison might be the sleeper in the trade and prove to be a quality starter down the road as he has some raw talent that needs to be developed. Thatcher will be a short man in the pen for his career and you can find guys like that laying aroung each year, look what the Brewers hauled in this year for short men. The trade did not handcuff the Brewers since they did not give up any top end prospects to get Linebrink and it was taking top end guys to players this offseason. If the Brewers wanted to get talent in a trade they would have had to use other players from the farm system or on the 25 man roster, those 3 pitchers were not huge losses.