Sahadev Sharma expects Cubs to be aggressive in pursuit of upgrading pitching staff

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00:00Right now, though, Sahadev Sharma is joining us on the Circa Sports Illinois hotline.

00:05Download the Circa app today. Sahadev, what are the Cubs going to do now that Justin Steele is

00:11no longer a part of this team's 2025 season? Yeah, I mean, they obviously you cannot replace

00:19what Justin Steele brings. He brings certainty, right? Like he kind of become this stable force

00:24in the rotation over the last couple of years. It's really hard to replace that with just one

00:32pitcher, right? It's going to be hard. Matthew Boyd has looked great. Looks like you're getting

00:38that upside that they hope to get from him. Shota Minaga seems like he's he has a chance to be as

00:44good as last season. So you have two really good starters there. Tyone's like that prototypical

00:49number three. So what do they do? Like Colin Ray looked all right, right? He looked he looked pretty

00:54good against the Dodgers. Ben Brown. I think it was huge for him to bounce back after a really rough

00:59outing in his previous start. So those two guys look like the immediate answers. At some point,

01:06Jordan Wicks is a has a shot to be a part of this. Javier Assad. I mean, we know the names. We've seen

01:13these guys. They're quality starters. They're not bad. They can help the team in short bursts, possibly

01:18give you similar output as as steel, but not you know, you can't expect that over the course of

01:25whatever twenty five starts. It's going to be hard to replicate that. So we're talking about in a month

01:31or two, I mean, two or three months, what what the trade deadline looks like, right? Who's available?

01:37Who who can they go after? This is a this is a front office that's going to be aggressive because

01:43their jobs are on the line. Right. So I expect them to be aggressive to upgrade the pitching staff,

01:49both in the bullpen and and in the rotation, depending on what needs really emerge. Right.

01:55If if if different guys step up, if Ben Brown starts to repeat that outing over and over again,

02:01things start to look different. Right. You feel differently about things.