MILWAUKEE — The boos still ring out whenever manager Craig Counsell’s name is announced during pregame introductions at American Family Field. The Milwaukee Brewers remain in first place in the National League Central, a baseball industry gold standard for pitching development and small-market efficiency. Once again, the Chicago Cubs are playing catch-up.Counsell, though, isn’t fixated on the gap in the division, which the Cubs reduced to 5 1/2 games with Sunday’s 4-3 victory in 10 innings. The Cubs manager is occupied with a pitching staff in tatters.“I’m thinking about our team right now,” Counsell said. “We’ve just gone through this period of pitcher loss. We got to get through this phase. That’s No. 1. That’s really the focus of everything for me right now. Let’s get our team through this phase and come out the other side with some semblance of order in how we’re going to run it the rest of the year.”That sense of organization is one reason why Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer secretly negotiated a five-year, $40 million contract with Counsell after the 2023 season and then fired David Ross. Believe it when Counsell, a Wisconsin resident and the former Brewers manager, says his old team is not in his head.Just look at the 12 pitchers on Chicago’s injured list, a group that on paper mostly resembles what the club would want in a 13-man staff for a playoff series: