Spiegs thinks Cubs can win division without Cade Horton
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spiegel at Homes. |
| 0:01.3 | Matt and Lawrence Taney and Alex. Now 13, their whole crew. Afternoons on the score. Unfortunately, we have experience with this just from about a year ago today, right, with Steely. And, you know, I think everybody realizes that, you know, look, like, there's certainly players that help us, you know, win more games or expected games. But, you know, we actually have to play the games. And so Javier's going to step up and get us a win tonight. And Conrad will step up and give us a win tomorrow. And all of those guys who have an opportunity to contribute, you know, if we told Hobby win, we optioned on the spring training, you know, hey, you're going to throw hundreds of innings for the Cubs. |
| 0:38.6 | And a lot of those are going to be this year. |
| 0:40.7 | And, you know, sure enough, here he is. |
| 0:42.6 | So excited for the opportunity for him. |
| 0:44.5 | And, you know, it'll be fun to watch him to step up. |
| 0:47.7 | That was Carter Hawkins on with Zach Zadman talking about where things stand now. |
| 0:54.8 | Javier Sott came up, done nice work. |
| 0:57.6 | So that's good. |
| 0:59.6 | You've gotten one start. |
| 1:01.4 | You were able to eat up some innings and win a game. |
| 1:05.0 | And you got to keep going forward here. |
| 1:08.6 | How do you do that without Cade Horton, Matt Spiegel? |
| 1:11.7 | Well, you let the offense pick you up, and you hope that the offense picks you up, |
| 1:18.2 | and you use the depth that you have been talking about, and everyone has known that you have. |
| 1:26.0 | I think they can win the division without Kate Horton. |
| 1:29.9 | I think they can. That's bold. I think Javier Assad can be very, very good at times and can be |
| 1:36.8 | super consistent. I think Colin Ray can be decent and really good at times. It can be super consistent. |
| 1:43.6 | I think Jackson Wiggins will be here eventually. |
| 1:46.5 | I think Justin Steele will be back and will be very good. |
| 1:50.4 | Yeah, late May, early June. |
| 1:53.1 | I think they can win the division without Cade Horton. |
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