Bruce Levine

Hi, guys.

You gave all the information, so back to you.

Council has alluded to the fact that it would be a short period of time, maybe a week or 10 days.

He has to go on the 10-day aisle.

I think it can be...

backtracked here, so he might miss a week if the knee comes around.

He hasn't really done the full running part yet, started to hit in the cage and do some other drills, but when he gets into the full sprinting mode and recovers the next day okay, that's when things will be okay and he'll come off the IL.

In the meantime, Michael Conforto has made the team, the veteran who

Failed so miserably last year after having such a great career in New York and trying to make it back, had a relatively good spring.

If you go by spring training statistics, hit the ball pretty hard.

came into camp in good shape.

So from that perspective, he's going to make the team.

The one area that we don't know about and which is intriguing is the waiver wire.

Everybody is releasing people over the next two days before the season starts.

And with the fact that these rosters will have people that are leaving, the Cubs are looking for a backup infielder.

They have Shaw, who's going to back up third and second.

and play some right field.

So they're comfortable with that.

But they really don't have outside Nico Horner backup shortstop.

They don't like taking a gold glove second baseman, moving him to short if Swanson has any issues health-wise.