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.

Team In Training Honored at Mallards Game

On Sunday, July 27th, Team In Training will be the honored non-profit at the Madison Mallard's Game. Our honored teammate, 11 year old cancer survivor Caela, will be throwing the opening pitch. A portion of ticket sales will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Braun and Sheets to Play in All-Star Game

Ryan Braun and Ben Sheets have been selected to start in the 2008 All-Star Game, the last to be played at Yankee Stadium on July 15th. Braun is the first Brewer's outfielder to start in the All-Star game since 1999! Please vote for Corey Hart to join them.
Braun has also joined the home run derby next week at Yankee Stadium. Braun currently leads the Brewers with 22 home runs.

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.