"It seems like the smarter you get," Milwaukee Brewers GM Doug Melvin said, "the less we get what we want to get accomplished."

There were nine pitchers who threw 220 innings last season. The Brewers, who lost CC Sabathia and Ben Sheets to free agency last winter, didn't have a pitcher with more than 195 innings.

"Pitching today," Melvin said, "we're all trying to figure it out. What is our purpose of developing young pitchers? By the time pitching develops, it's somewhere else.. .. The (St. Louis) Cardinals won a (divisional championship), and all their starters were developed from somewhere else."

Melvin says he refuses to include All-Star first baseman Prince Fielder in any deal. "There's not a lot of trade talk," Melvin said. "And I haven't heard a team say they're adding payroll, yet."