Durham/Taschner for Hammond/Ford (AAA pitcher and A OF)

at this stage of his career. You’d think the Brew Crew would be focused on the bulpen

and is playing like he wants another big payday from someone.

make them push him kicking and screaming out onto the field during a relief situation ..

I heard somewhere in urban legend land that the last name Gagne means “ambition” ..

Ray Durham was once relevent… a decade ago.

only because Durham wears out the Cubs. So let’s hope Hendry and Lou scour Baseball-Reference.com and find out who wears out the Brewers and acquire whoever that player is.

j/k, j/k…

Not a bad move by the Brewers. They plan on converting Rickie Weeks to center field next season, or so the story goes.

signing Jim Edmonds.

Durham could be ‘useful’ to Brewers

Sunday, July 20, 2008 | Feedback | Print Entry

Ray Durham has bounced back from an atrocious 2007 to “useful” status in 2008, getting on base well without showing the fluky power he had in 2006. He’s a high-contact hitter with a short swing geared to maximize plate coverage, and as a switch-hitter without a pronounced platoon split, he can pinch hit in any situation. (His big platoon split this year, crushing righties while doing nothing against lefties, is a mirror image of his 2006 split. His career splits are almost identical from both sides).

In the field, however, Durham’s a statue, one of the worst defensive second basemen in baseball—worse than Rickie Weeks, who has range Durham hasn’t seen in years but is too erratic to be average. Durham’s best asset is his hands, which are steady and soft, while Weeks’ hands are often his undoing in the field.

.293 AVG is decent, but what about .414 SLG and 32 RBI in 87 games??? Not to mention his awful defensive range. What’s all the hubub? They can get that from almost any 2B in the league.