Kind of seems like the whole "rotation battle" was a sham to begin with if Suppan is declared the winner. This is probably what aggravates me most about this. Don't come out in the media and say it's an open competition for the 4th and 5th spots and then give the guy who pitched the worst the 5th spot. Some of Macha's reasons for picking Suppan are pretty ridiculous, including the one about him not being matched up against the other team's #1 starter. Agreed. We're not idiots, we can go to Suppan's player card on ESPN, go to his game log and look at who he faced last year. In fact, a guy on RealGM did and it took him about 15-20 minutes. Here's the list. Tim Lincecum Ryan Dempster Nelson Figueroa Mike Hampton Max Scherzer Ian Snell Sean Marshall Adam Wainwright Roy Oswalt Adam Wainwright Andrew Miller Javier Vazquez Clayton Richard David Huff Francisco Liriano Ryan Sadowski Carlos Zambrano Todd Wellemeyer Bronson Arroyo Paul Maholm Craig Stammen Bronson Arroyo Ross Ohlendorf Barry Zito Adam Wainwright Ryan Dempster Brian Moehler JA Happ Jason Hammel Joel Pineiro He certainly wasn't facing aces everytime out last year. Bottom line, Suppan is getting paid a ton so you as well see if he has anything left in the tank. That is horrible reasoning. Just from watching him last year and then him getting another year away from his prime they should know he has nothing left in the tank.