07/28 CUBS (Wells) @ Milwaukee (Marcum) 1:10 CDT, WGN TV

[Fred Hornkohl]

Lucroy grounded into a FC, 5-4, Betancourt out at second

[Fred Hornkohl]

Counsell flied out to right field

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH INNING

 

Betancourt grounded an IF single to third base

Lucroy grounded into a FC, 5-4, Betancourt out at second

Counsell flied out to right field

Marcum grounded out to short, 6-3

 

0 runs 1 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 0                        1  5  0
Milwaukee       2 0 1 0                        3  6  2

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Milwaukee: Braun (21)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         4.0  6  3  3  1  1  1  63

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marcum        4.0  5  1  1  1  3  0  73

[Fred Hornkohl]

             CUBS   Milwaukee
P/PA          4.06        3.50
RBI%          0.09        0.33
R/BR          0.17        0.43
BA           0.313       0.375
OBP          0.375       0.438
SLG          0.375       0.625
OPS          0.750       1.063
ERA           6.75        2.25
BB/9          2.25        2.25
K/9           2.25        6.75

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        9
Cincinnati     8  8

Pittsburgh     0
Atlanta        0  6:10

Houston        0
St. Louis      0  7:15

[Fred Hornkohl]

Campana            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
Leading off        27    4    6    1    0    0    0    0    6  0.222  0.222  0.259  0.481  0.286  3.56    1.6  0.000  0.000
bases empty        56    9   12    1    0    0    0    3   14  0.214  0.254  0.232  0.486  0.286  3.71    3.3  0.040  0.000
Middle (4-6)       23    4    6    0    0    0    1    3    5  0.261  0.346  0.261  0.607  0.333  3.78    2.1  0.085  0.125
0 outs             36    8    9    1    0    0    0    0    9  0.250  0.250  0.278  0.528  0.333  3.46    2.5  0.000  0.000
CUBS trailing      37    2    5    0    0    0    0    2   11  0.135  0.179  0.135  0.315  0.192  3.68    0.9  0.044  0.000
last 7 games        2    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    1  0.000  0.333  0.000  0.333  0.000  4.00    0.0  0.333  0.000
July               11    2    2    0    0    0    0    1    2  0.182  0.250  0.182  0.432  0.222  4.08    0.5  0.068  0.000
Road               28    5    8    1    0    0    2    0    4  0.286  0.286  0.321  0.607  0.333  3.69    2.6  0.000  0.286
Day                51    5   14    0    0    0    1    5    9  0.275  0.339  0.275  0.614  0.333  4.04    4.8  0.065  0.071
vs Right           64   12   19    2    0    0    2    4   12  0.297  0.338  0.328  0.666  0.365  3.59    7.1  0.041  0.111
vs. Milw           11    2    2    1    0    0    0    0    4  0.182  0.182  0.273  0.455  0.286  3.00    0.5  0.000  0.000
Bill Welke          0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00    0.0  0.000  0.000

season totals      82   13   21    2    0    0    2    5   16  0.256  0.299  0.280  0.579  0.318  3.62    6.9  0.043  0.080

[Fred Hornkohl]

TOP OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Campana grounded out to the pitcher, 1-3

Castro popped out to second base

A Ramirez grounded out to short, 6-3

 

0 runs 0 hits 0 errors 0 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 0 0                      1  5  0
Milwaukee       2 0 1 0                        3  6  2

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Milwaukee: Braun (21)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         4.0  6  3  3  1  1  1  63

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marcum        5.0  5  1  1  1  3  0  83

[Fred Hornkohl]

             CUBS   Milwaukee
P/PA          3.95        3.50
RBI%          0.09        0.33
R/BR          0.17        0.43
BA           0.263       0.375
OBP          0.316       0.438
SLG          0.316       0.625
OPS          0.632       1.063
ERA           6.75        1.80
BB/9          2.25        1.80
K/9           2.25        5.40

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        9  9
Cincinnati     8

Pittsburgh     0
Atlanta        0  6:10

Houston        0
St. Louis      0  7:15

[Fred Hornkohl]

Hart called out on strikes

[Fred Hornkohl]

Morgan singled to down the right field line

[Fred Hornkohl]

Braun doubled to left center field, Morgan scored

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fielder walked (intentionally)

[BeerHere]

Wells is pitching like crap, catching entirely too much plate.

[Fred Hornkohl]

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH INNING

 

Hart called out on strikes

Morgan singled to down the right field line

Braun doubled to left center field, Morgan scored

Fielder walked (intentionally)

McGehee grounded into a DP, 5-4-3, Fielder out at second

 

1 runs 2 hits 0 errors 1 men left on base

 

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9              R  H  E
CUBS            1 0 0 0 0                      1  5  0
Milwaukee       2 0 1 0 1                      4  8  2

 

Home runs:

CUBS: none

Milwaukee: Braun (21)

 

CUBS           IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Wells         5.0  8  4  4  2  2  1  80

 

Milwaukee      IP  H  R ER BB  K HR PIT
Marcum        5.0  5  1  1  1  3  0  83

[Fred Hornkohl]

             CUBS   Milwaukee
P/PA          3.95        3.48
RBI%          0.09        0.33
R/BR          0.17        0.40
BA           0.263       0.400
OBP          0.316       0.476
SLG          0.316       0.650
OPS          0.632       1.126
ERA           7.20        1.80
BB/9          3.60        1.80
K/9           3.60        5.40

[Fred Hornkohl]

NY Mets        9  9
Cincinnati     8

Pittsburgh     0
Atlanta        0  6:10

Houston        0
St. Louis      0  7:15

[utkcub]

Wells is garbage, Pena just might be the best defensive first basemen we've had in a long time. This team would have atleast 20 more errors if it werent for this guy making incredible digs at first

[Fred Hornkohl]

Pena               AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
Leading off        74   17   23    5    0    6    6    8   19  0.311  0.378  0.622  1.000  0.347  3.72   17.4  0.067  0.000
bases empty       176   24   41    6    1    8    8   22   54  0.233  0.325  0.415  0.740  0.289  3.90   23.7  0.092  0.000
Middle (4-6)      115   19   32    2    0   11   23   22   34  0.278  0.396  0.583  0.978  0.300  3.85   26.5  0.117  0.203
0 outs            116   25   33    6    0   11   20   16   35  0.284  0.371  0.621  0.992  0.314  3.91   26.7  0.087  0.214
CUBS trailing     145   25   31    4    1   12   28   29   41  0.214  0.347  0.503  0.850  0.207  3.89   25.3  0.133  0.193
last 7 games       22    0    3    2    0    0    0    4   11  0.136  0.269  0.227  0.497  0.273  4.46    1.3  0.133  0.000
July               76    8   16    2    1    3    7    8   29  0.211  0.282  0.382  0.664  0.295  3.84    8.2  0.072  0.129
Road              162   25   37    4    1   11   27   23   49  0.228  0.324  0.469  0.794  0.255  3.93   24.7  0.096  0.180
Day               156   21   31    2    1   11   25   24   53  0.199  0.308  0.436  0.744  0.217  4.03   20.9  0.109  0.159
vs Right          238   36   61    8    1   16   41   42   74  0.256  0.370  0.500  0.870  0.304  4.02   44.0  0.113  0.198
vs. Milw           27    2    6    3    0    1    1    4   12  0.222  0.323  0.444  0.767  0.357  4.29    3.9  0.100  0.000
Bill Welke          0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00    0.0  0.000  0.000

season totals     324   46   71   10    1   20   51   55  106  0.219  0.332  0.441  0.774  0.258  3.98   47.5  0.113  0.172

[Fred Hornkohl]

Pena doubled to left center field

[Sammy Sofa]

Wells is garbage, Pena just might be the best defensive first basemen we've had in a long time. This team would have atleast 20 more errors if it werent for this guy making incredible digs at first

 

A long time? They still had Lee last year.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Byrd               AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
RISP               67    8   15    1    0    2   11    3   16  0.224  0.278  0.328  0.606  0.265  3.15    6.1  0.054  0.102
Middle (4-6)       91   12   26    4    1    2    6    4   17  0.286  0.316  0.418  0.733  0.333  3.41   12.0  0.030  0.089
0 outs             78   13   30    6    1    1    1    3   13  0.385  0.422  0.526  0.947  0.453  3.65   17.3  0.037  0.000
CUBS trailing     108   14   35    5    1    0    1    1   18  0.324  0.348  0.389  0.737  0.389  3.53   14.6  0.024  0.020
last 7 games       26    4    8    2    1    1    1    2    2  0.308  0.379  0.577  0.956  0.304  3.72    5.7  0.072  0.000
July               77   10   24    5    1    2    4    6   13  0.312  0.369  0.481  0.850  0.355  3.62   13.7  0.057  0.063
Road              117   17   35    9    0    3   11    7   23  0.299  0.354  0.453  0.807  0.352  3.51   18.8  0.055  0.121
Day               116   19   40    5    2    2    7    7   24  0.345  0.392  0.474  0.866  0.422  3.68   21.6  0.047  0.100
vs Right          188   26   63    9    2    3   10   10   38  0.335  0.381  0.452  0.833  0.408  3.63   32.4  0.046  0.081
vs. Milw           19    3    6    5    0    0    1    3    2  0.316  0.409  0.579  0.988  0.353  3.82    4.5  0.093  0.143
Bill Welke          0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00    0.0  0.000  0.000

season totals     249   33   77   13    2    5   15   11   49  0.309  0.353  0.438  0.791  0.369  3.52   38.5  0.044  0.083

[Fred Hornkohl]

Byrd grounded out to short, 6-3

[Fred Hornkohl]

Soto               AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA     RC   IsoD   RBI%
RISP               67    5   16    6    0    1   18   12   17  0.239  0.354  0.373  0.728  0.306  4.05    8.9  0.116  0.185
Middle (4-6)       98   11   27    6    0    5    9    8   27  0.276  0.330  0.490  0.820  0.333  3.88   15.8  0.055  0.071
1 out              80    9   20    7    0    3    8    9   25  0.250  0.348  0.450  0.798  0.327  3.99   12.5  0.098  0.125
CUBS trailing     130   14   32    7    0    6   16    8   38  0.246  0.310  0.438  0.748  0.302  3.97   17.7  0.064  0.167
last 7 games       26    2    8    1    0    1    4    1    9  0.308  0.357  0.462  0.819  0.438  4.14    4.3  0.049  0.214
July               72    5   21    3    0    1    6    3   25  0.292  0.338  0.375  0.713  0.435  4.00    9.1  0.046  0.139
Road              125   15   33    8    0    6   16   14   37  0.264  0.343  0.472  0.815  0.329  3.93   20.2  0.079  0.167
Day               123   15   32   10    0    4   17   15   33  0.260  0.359  0.439  0.798  0.326  4.01   19.4  0.099  0.169
vs Right          204   21   45   14    0    5   20   19   61  0.221  0.293  0.363  0.656  0.290  3.94   21.7  0.073  0.125
vs. Milw           33    4    7    0    0    2    3    5   12  0.212  0.316  0.394  0.710  0.263  3.87    4.1  0.104  0.059
Bill Welke          0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.000  0.00    0.0  0.000  0.000

season totals     266   28   64   17    0    9   27   29   75  0.241  0.324  0.406  0.730  0.302  3.94   35.0  0.084  0.126

[Ballgame64]

What kind of "scrutiny" are you talking about? You're talking like he should be benched or sent to the minors. And how the [expletive] does he sound "entitled?"

 

And McGehee is not impressive at all. He's a very inconsistent player whose 2009 numbers are skewed by him playing out of his mind in September and June (April and August in 2010). He's been useful to the Brewers because he's been cheap, but his fluctuations seem to have caught up to him and he's absolutely brutal this year.

Wells has sucked this year but everyone (fans, media and Hendry) would rather worry about Zambrano calling out the team, Zambrano being unhappy about being taken out the game last night, etc. There seems to be accountability for certain players but not all players.

 

I bet you have argued with many posters about not choosing stats from certain months to make a point, but that is what you are doing. Bottom line is McGehee had a much better year in 2010 than you are giving him credit for. Does that mean I think he is great? No. But it is funny that the Cubs let him go for nothing and the Brewers got good production from a minimum salary guy while the Cubs had a cast of average to below average players fill in for Ramirez when he was on the DL.

 

Well, it's pretty clear you have zero understanding as to how he ended up on the Brewers if you're going to look at as "they let him go for nothing." Please, explain to us your version of those events.

 

And yes, he's been a very inconsistent player.

 

And I'm absolutely baffled as to what you expect to be done about Wells. You want him raked over the coals? He's been bad, people recognize that he's bad. What else do you want?

Wait, who did the Cubs get for McGehee? According to baseball-reference he was select off waivers by the Brewers. So I guess the Cubs did get nothing for him. Interesting.

 

He ended up on the Brewers because Jim Hendry decided to make sure he had room on the 40 man roster. So Hendry placed him on waivers to try to send him back to AAA and the Brewers claimed him. What does it really matter though, I am not saying they should have never let him go but it is funny how he has been productive for the Brewers as Hendry has gone through Aaron Miles, Andres Blanco, Bobby Scales, Ryan Freel, etc.

 

Aren't most baseball players inconsistent? Do you judge them only during their bad times or only during their good times? Do you judge teams only during certain months?

 

What do I expect to be done about Wells? Figure out a way to make him better or find someone better than him.