Pete Crow-Armstrong Appreciation Thread

[BigSlick]

PCA rules so much. He's gonna have a 40-40 season and dab on all his haters. 

[Rob]

PCA has cleared 4.0 fWAR this season. Now at 4.1.

Since 2000, the only Cubs position players with a seasonal fWAR greater than PCA's 2025 are:

• Sammy Sosa (peaked at 9.9 in 2001)
• Kris Bryant (peaked at 7.5 in 2016)
• Derrek Lee (peaked at 7.0 in 2005)
• Alfonso Soriano (peaked at 7.0 in 2007)
• Moises Alou (peaked at 5.9 in 2004)
• Javier Baez (peaked at 5.8 in 2018)
• Anthony Rizzo (peaked at 5.2 in 2014)
• Corey Patterson (peaked at 5.0 in 2004)
• Dansby Swanson (peaked at 4.9 in 2023)
• Aramis Ramirez (peaked at 4.8 in 2007)
• Cody Bellinger (peaked at 4.4 in 2023)
• Nico Hoerner (peaked at 4.3 in 2022)
• Dexter Fowler (peaked at 4.3 in 2016)
• Mark DeRosa (peaked at 4.2 in 2008)

There's a pretty long list of current and former Cubs who never had a season this good with us. Ian Happ, Seiya Suzuki, Willson Contreras, Kyle Schwarber, Geovany Soto, Ben Zobrist, Addison Russell, Starlin Castro, etc...

And we're not even at the All-Star Break.

[We Got The Whole 9]

He might be having the greatest season he will ever have. He wouldn't be the first player to do that in his age-23 season. However, his floor is like a 3-4 war player as long as he gets 600 PA. If he hits, he's a HOF player.

[Bull]

PCA - The greatest defender...ever?

Edited July 7, 2025 by Bull

[We Got The Whole 9]

Holy horsefeathers, 1 away from leading the career list of 5-star catches

[imb]

10 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Holy horsefeathers, 1 away from leading the career list of 5-star catches

god almighty

[UMFan83]

2 hours ago, Bull said:

PCA - The greatest defender...ever?

This can't be true, he is disqualified because he took a bad route to a ball once and forgot the number of outs another time according to Cardinals and Brewers twitter,

[squally1313]

Just now, UMFan83 said:

This can't be true, he is disqualified because he took a bad route to a ball once and forgot the number of outs another time according to Cardinals and Brewers twitter,

Should have been benched, clearly has been a shell of himself since that happened.

[soccer10k]

1 hour ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Holy horsefeathers, 1 away from leading the career list of 5-star catches

According to baseball savant, 38 players have at least 10 opportunities at a 5 star catch this year. Everyone besides PCA have made 21 5 star catches combined and no players have made more than 3. PCA has 10 by himself. And it’s not like he’s had way more chances either. He’s one of 8 with 15+ chances. He’s made 10 of 15, which is a 66.7% success rate. Second place is Eli White at 33% and he’s 1-3 this year.

For his career he’s 18-32, which is a 56.3% catch rate. There’s only 1 player who has a 30+% catch rate who has more than 8 chances, which is Andrew Toles at 4-13 (30.8%). PCA’s 18 catches is also tied for the most with Kiermaier and Michael Taylor. Those two have 102 and 148 chances at 5 star catches.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Why are his 5-star opportunities so low? Just pitching and ball park factors?

*nevermind, I had it on all years

Edited July 8, 2025 by Tangled Up in Plaid

[Banedon]

That's the good stuff.
 

 

[Bull]

On 7/7/2025 at 12:09 PM, UMFan83 said:

This can't be true, he is disqualified because he took a bad route to a ball once and forgot the number of outs another time according to Cardinals and Brewers twitter,

There is no doubt he is still a nincompoop. This does not negate him being the best defender ever.  

[NorthsideAvenger]

TIL the Mets called the Cubs back in 2023 and pitch a Pete Alonso for PCA trade. Conversation was brief.

[bukie]

With Judge out due to injury for an unknown amount of time, there is a very real chance PCA finishes the year with the highest bWAR in MLB: