The Brewers inked Trevor Hoffman to a one-year deal worth $6 million plus incentives today, making for the very first news out of Brewers land since before Christmas. It certainly is refreshing to see Doug Melvin doing something, because Brewerland has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of that one starter that will set the rotation for the year or the guys who are going to replace Salomon Torres or Eric Gagne in the bullpen.
Hoffman is distinguished among everyone across the baseball world, what with saving games for the last 15+ years for the Padres and doing an incredibly good job doing it. Including his injury-shortened year in 2003, Hoffman has only dipped below a 130ERA+ three times since 1994, and unlike the closer the Brewers brought in last year, has never been clouded with any steroids suspicion.
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