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So, we enter June in one of the most concentrated and challenging portions of the schedule (21 games in 20 days), and with Jason Lawson already on the DL with a hamstring sprain (scheduled to be back on day 20 of this marathon stretch) and, of course, Miguel Campos out for the season with a torn labrum, naturally injury prone Chris Montefusco would come down with a bad case of back stiffness that would sideline him for approximately two weeks. Having already resorted to using long reliever Logan Dunbar in the rotation likely for the entire season, and having traded for mediocre veteran lefty Joey Brown (don't tell him I called him mediocre, really need him to keep overachieving), someone needed to be brought up from the minors to fill the gap. A warm body, basically. After much agonizing it was decided that there was really nothing to do but to bring up veteran Volker Kuhn from AAA. Kuhn, signed earlier in the spring to a minor league contract as a free agent, is a native of Germany (Marl) and beyond that there really isn't much that is interesting about him. Granted, he has three decent pitches (and an average fourth) and not horrible stuff, but with his quite sub-par movement and control, it's going to take a deal of luck and some Brewer's offensive firepower (rare, lately) to get wins with him on the mound.
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