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The St. Louis Cardinals have placed Jake Westbrook on the disabled list with elbow pain that he has been trying to ignore since spring training.

"I've pitched through a lot of stuff through my career," Westbrook said. "It just kind of got a little more inflamed than I would have liked my last start."

St. Louis general manager John Mozeliak said Westbrook likely would miss two starts after complaining about the elbow in his last outing, but emphasized it was a minor injury. The 35-year-old got a cortisone injection on Friday.

"It's really not that big of a deal," Mozeliak said. "It's just something that we didn't want to push it, didn't want it to become a big problem."

Via Associated Press