Carter Hawkins: Cubs are hopeful they'll get Justin Steele back soon

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00:00um he did was this a pre-existing thing or did he just come out of that start with a sore elbow

00:07uh i mean kind of both you know obviously um it's the same it's the same injury as

00:14is last year something that's been nagging him so um you know that that happens with players

00:19you know where there's something that you know kind of pops up here and there you know throughout

00:22their careers and just as though exception there and you know this one popped up it's not something

00:27that had been hurting him in spring training you know he'd been in a really good place and

00:31you know we're hopeful that we caught it early and that we'll be able to get him back here soon

00:34and you know that's why we're taking a conservative route here what is the level of concern and is

00:40jordan wicks part of the plan to perhaps replace him for start here or there yeah i mean the there's

00:47always concern when you're dealing with injuries with any player especially somebody is as talented

00:51as justin but you know right now all we got to do is figure out exactly what's going on in there and

00:56then you know just as necessary um but you know this is something that almost every team is dealing

01:01with and you know we certainly you know built up our starting pitching depth uh to be able to

01:06withstand things like this and you got guys like wicks colin ray obviously javi assad is is going to be

01:13coming off the il here you know not imminently but you know soon hopefully this month and um you

01:18know then you got other guys in the minor leagues your kate hortons of the world and then right you know

01:22there's somebody that no one's thinking about um that's going to be helping us out over the course

01:26of this year so i think the answer is all of those guys are going to be part of the answer and you know

01:30with winning teams that go long into into the season um and into the off season they have to have a lot of

01:36answers

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