Chicago — Jonathan Lucroy, who missed more than five weeks earlier this season with a broken big toe, made it clear that he feels fine physically.
Mentally? Not so much.
"It's actually embarrassing, the way I've been playing," Lucroy said in the midst of the Milwaukee Brewers' three-game series at Wrigley Field. "I'm not performing at the level I'm capable of.
"I feel fine physically. Mentally, it's a different story."
It's easy to see that Lucroy is a bit beaten down these days. It has not been his year, going all the way back to spring training, when he reported as a limited participant while recovering from a high hamstring injury near his right hip.