Lieber might be finished with Cubs

SAN FRANCISCO--Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said Tuesday thatstarter Jon Lieber may not pitch again this season because of right-elbow problems.

"There's a possibility that he won't," Hendry said.

The bigger question, of course, is whether Lieber has pitched hisfinal game as a Cub. The team has to decide later this year whetherhe is such a health risk that it wouldn't make business sense toexercise a $6.5 million contract option the organization has onLieber for 2003.

Hendry is nowhere near being ready to answer that question. Butmore definitive news on Lieber could come as soon as today. AfterLieber visited Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., on …