Brewers Obtain Durham from Giants

The Brewers have obtained switch-hitting 2nd baseman Ray Durham from the San Francisco Giants. The Giants got Class A outfielder Darren Ford and Triple A left-hander Steve Hammond. Rickie Weeks will continue to be the starting 2nd baseman, Ned Yost plans to play Durham a couple times a week and see how it goes.
"We are trying to get as many good players as we can," said Milwaukee General Manager Doug Melvin, "We're trying to win this thing."
Durham stated that it was a "weird feeling" watching the finally of the Brewers 3 game series on Sunday and then packing up to fly with the Brewers to St. Loise where he will be wearing the #5 uniform tonight.
Durham will be valuable for his nearly equal stats. As a left-handed hitter against right-handed pitchers he has a .279 average with .354 on-base percentage. And vice versa he has a .277 average with a .344 on-base percentage.

Brewers Sign CC Sabathia

Yesterday at 11am the Brewers announced that they traded 4 prospects (most notable is Matt LaPorta) for Cleveland pitcher (and AL Cy Young Award Winner) CC Sabathia to make a run for the play offs. Sabathia made his first start with the Brewers last night in game 2 of their series against the Colorado Rockies. In this opening game the Brewers beat the Rockies 7 to 3 with a 3 run home run by Ryan Braun!
It has been 26 years since the Brewers were able to celebrate a playoff berth. Hopefully Sheets and Sabathia prove to be the duo the Brewers need pitching for them to make it possible in '08.