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MILWAUKEE — Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young announced several roster moves Wednesday in an attempt to improve the offense for the defending World Series champions.

“We can’t sit back and wait, hope that it comes together. It’s time for us to get going, it’s time for us offensively to perform like the team that we know we can be,” Young said.

“I have great confidence in all of these players, but for a number of reasons, we just haven’t performed to the level that we were expecting.”

Texas selected the contract of outfielder Derek Hill from Triple-A Round Rock. He hit .222 in a five-game stint with the Rangers from May 21 to June 2. The Rangers also optioned infielder Ezequiel Duran to Round Rock. Duran hit .256 with two homers and 13 RBIs in 58 games.

The Rangers also activated infielder Justin Foscue from the injured list and optioned him to Round Rock. They also transferred right-hander Cole Winn from the 15-day to the 60-day injured list (right shoulder sprain) and right-hander Yerry Rodríguez was designated for assignment.

After Wednesday, the Rangers are six games below .500 at 37-43 and in third place in the AL West, 7½ games behind Seattle.

The Rangers had scored a total of nine runs in dropping three straight to the Brewers. They head to Baltimore for a four-game series.

“Sometimes you’ve got to try to shake things up, we’re looking for a spark,” manager Bruce Bochy said.

Josh Jung

Josh Jung’s meticulous return from a fractured right wrist has not been without a bump in the road or two, but the Texas Rangers third baseman did return to American Family Field on Wednesday with a positive update in tow. Jung met with Arizona-based hand surgeon Dr. Don Sheridan on Tuesday and was told that, structurally, his fractured wrist is fine and showed positive signs of bone growth.

His comeback — which the Rangers once hoped could have happened on this current road trip — was delayed due to tendon inflammation in his wrist, but Jung said that he expects to start swinging a bat again this week. General manager Chris Young said that the Rangers were “fortunate” to avoid a more serious issue, and that the hope is that Jung is ready to go “in the coming days.”

“It’s just going to be one of those things that I’ll probably end up just having to play through,” Jung told the Dallas Morning News. “You don’t want to jump in when you’re feeling something because that’s just not going to help, but in a couple of days we’ll test it out and go from there.”

Jung, 26, has now missed 76 games this season since he was hit by a pitch on April 1 against the Tampa Bay Rays. He played four rehab games at Triple-A Round Rock last week (and played through the soreness in his wrist) before he returned to the Rangers’ clubhouse on Friday.

“I was just going to push it and see if there was light on the other side of it,” Jung said. “It was just getting a little worse, so we finally just backed off.”

Texas shut Jung down for the weekend but had originally expected him to take swings again on Tuesday before a reevaluation. Instead the Rangers sent him back to Arizona for another checkup with Sheridan.

Young classified Jung’s potential return on this road trip as “ambitious” on Tuesday, and said Wednesday that his timeline will be determined “in the next few days.”

“This will hopefully respond and calm down with the meds, at which point we’ll evaluate how to ramp up his baseball activity and do it in a responsible way that doesn’t jeopardize him” Young said. “We may have to even ease into it once he’s here … that’ll be determined in the next few days.”