MLB Turns Heads With Pete Crow-Armstrong Post on Wednesday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. There was plenty of hype surrounding Pete Crow-Armstrong before he was called up by the Chicago Cubs, and through the first 60 games of the 2025 season, he’s lived up to it.

Pete Crow-Armstrong manufactures a run with his 20th stolen base of the season, becoming the fourth-fastest player with 15 home runs and 20 stolen bases

Entering play today, 60 games into the season, your WAR leader in the National League is Pete Crow-Armstrong. That’s true whether you’re a fan of fWAR (3.6) or bWAR (3.8) and it doesn’t take a lot of digging into the numbers to see how the Cubs centerfielder has played himself into the highly speculative early MVP conversation.