The Brewers have offered a four-year contract to free-agent pitcher Jeff Suppan. General manager Doug Melvin said Brewers officials met with Suppan and his agent, Scott Leventhal, Tuesday in the Los Angeles area and made a formal offer on Wednesday. "We stepped up and felt it was important to be known," Melvin said Thursday in a telephone interview, without revealing terms of Milwaukee's proposal. The offer was first reported Thursday on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Web site.