Although he has long been celebrate🌠d for his glove and his feet, Pete Crow-A🎃rmstrong has been showing off his considerable offensive upside for a month and a half at this point.
He continued the run yesterday in Coloraౠdo with homer number 10 on the season:
Over his last 45 games, Pete Crow-Armstrong has hit .309/.360/.537/146 wR🔯C+ꦛ, the 23rd best wRC+ in MLB during that stretch, and best on the Cubs.
So brilliant has PCA been of late that his season-long numbers look like a version you’d have been thrilled to take from the jump from a 22-year-old rookie who rapidly ascended the minors: .239/.290/.404/93 wRC+, 2.6 WAR. That’s the 10th best rookie WAR this year among all position players in baseball, tied with his teammate, Michael Busch. Were it not for an uncommonly strong rookie class, it’s possible PCA would’ve gotten some down-the-ballot Rookie of the Year chatter.
It’s more of a humorous cut-off than anything else, but Pete Crow-Armstrong became the 17th member of the, uh, 10-25 club yesterday:
Absolute BS that the Rockies didn’t stop the game so the Cubs could play a video montage.
