I have to start with that catch.
It has all the hallmarks of an incredible Pete Crow-Armstrong catch. An obvious hit off the bat? Check. An unreal jump, route, and speed to the precise spot the ball is landing? Check. More ground covered than you could reasonably expect a player to traverse? Check. Gloving the ball at an exceedingly difficult spot without even leaving his feet? Check.
Just an unreal player making another unreal play:
*pretends to be shocked that pca made another highlight reel catch* pic.twitter.com/RT6FDvctKU
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 22, 2026That’s over 100 feet of coverage, man, sprinting toward bricks. Pete Crow-Armstrong is such an unbelievable center fielder that I believe in my soul that no other outfielder even attempts to make a play on this ball in the air, given what lurks behind that ivy. Most of the best outfielders see it off the bat, know where it’s headed, and play it smoothly off the wall to ensure there’s no attempt at a triple. And if they’re really, really good – and the runner is slow – maybe they have a chance at a dramatic play at second base. Some other very good, but inexperienced, outfielders probably do make a run at that ball, and maybe even catch it. But they’ve got a broken shoulder for their troubles.
The initial rating of the catch had it as an 80% probability play, but it sounds like that isn’t counting it as a wall-impacted ball just yet … which is obviously wrong. The Wrigley Field wall is most of what makes that play so crazy.
More PCA goodness …
Craig Counsell cannot praise his leadoff-hitting center fielder any more:"He's just a threat. He's a tough, tough at-bat for the pitcher in all ways … (defensively) nobody else is making the plays (that he is). You're gonna have to watch baseball a long time to find someone who's gonna make those plays. That's how good it is."Craig Counsell tips… pic.twitter.com/fEDJFEMlaE
— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) July 22, 2026 Counsell has been around a long time watching a lot of baseball, so for him to be saying those things is really something. Put a pin in the defensive side of that, because I’ll come back to it. His first inning made a little weird history:Pete Crow-Armstrong is the 9th player in history and first since 2017 to record a triple and a walk in the first inning of a regular season game. pic.twitter.com/aIL4JsEiQt
— Carson Wolf (@TheWrigleyWire) July 22, 2026 The fact that the walk was with the bases-loaded might transform that, by the way, from something that had happened eight times before in history to something that has never happened before. HISTORY! Pete Crow-Armstrong is in a “slump” at the plate over his last eight games, but I am here to tell you I could not be more excited about that slump. Why? Because this is what a slump looks like when you’ve transformed yourself at the plate: .143/.351/.250/78 wRC+, 24.3% BB, 29.7% K, .235 BABIP, 5.9% barrel, 23.5% hard hit. This is not necessarily a guy who is actually in a slump, tiny sample or otherwise. It’s just a little less great contact, and fewer hits not falling in, which sometimes they will not over a small sample. Striking out a ton? Nope. Walks vanishing? Nope. Egregiously bad batted ball quality? Nope. Just kinda not ideal (except the walks, which he’s accepting), but still the shape of a guy who knows what he is doing at the plate. When a “slump” comes with a .351 OBP, you might just be a superstar. (And, for the record, he had a big night at the plate last night, so the slump might actually just have been the preceding 7 games (yes, with worse numbers), and that only makes the same point: a seven-game variance in performance is a nothingburger in an MLB season. It’s simply not enough to call a slump, especially if one good game changes the whole discussion.) To that point, here’s Jed Hoyer to the Sun-Times: “The way he’s played for the last six weeks or so is what you hoped he would get to eventually. He got there really quickly. Obviously, he’s going to have to maintain it and stay there. But some of the great at-bats he’s had? He was facing [left-handed reliever Sam] Moll with Cincinnati, and I found myself thinking, ‘Oh, he’s going to walk him.’ And I was like, ‘Wow, that is a 180.’ I never would have thought that last year, that he was going to face that kind of guy . . . and he’s not going to chase a breaking ball away, [that] he’s going to have a disciplined approach. He’s kind of impossible [to pitch to] when you get to that place. This current approach is exactly what we always hoped he could get to. It just came a lot faster than we thought.” Guys just don’t improve their plate discipline THIS quickly:PCA walk rate, year-over-year:4.5% → 11.8% (+7.3%)That’s the largest increase by any player with a sub-5% walk rate since Al Kaline in 1954-55 (both qualified seasons). pic.twitter.com/6SHmGxplLh
— Paul Hembekides (Hembo) (@PaulHembo) July 22, 2026Pete Crow-Armstrong has recorded at least 2 walks in a game 10 times this season, including tonight.In his first 2+ seasons in the majors, PCA had 2 such games, both last year.
— Meghan Montemurro (@MegMontemurro) July 22, 2026 PCA (and Boog Sciambi) was really annoyed that the Tigers were packing it in come the 7th inning (and that these pitches were being called strikes, I’m sure):Pete Crow-Armstrong wants to play real baseball pic.twitter.com/7KSnWojXPx
— ?????? ???? (@TheConnorPils) July 22, 2026 And this was before the insane catch in last night’s game:Look at the innings difference man lmaooooo pic.twitter.com/gF4UlioVud
— AT (@BaseballWRLD_) July 22, 2026 I wish Statcast was 150 years old so that we could know exactly how unprecedented PCA’s run is. It’s already hard enough comparing between eras, but on the defensive side, it’s gonna be a lot of anecdotes and gut feel. Is PCA up there defensively with peak Ken Griffey Jr. and Andruw Jones and Willie Mays? Could he be at any point? I wouldn’t rule it out, but I don’t know that the data is going to answer it. That’s where I circle back to Craig Counsell’s comment up there – he’s effectively saying that, in this era, you’re just not going to see a defensive outfielder like PCA. So if this continues, wouldn’t that be a way to argue that we’re watching one of the best of the best? Credit to the teammates:Pete Crow-Armstrong got a new shipment of bats and was feeling it tonight.Tripled off an LHP to start a 6-run 1st inning and added 3 walks. @WatchMarquee #Cubs pic.twitter.com/KwasLL7NOq
— Lance Brozdowski (@LanceBroz) July 22, 2026 Still got time for the kids:Pic I took of PCA signing for kids!He takes good care of the kids ?? pic.twitter.com/yR7O1hNlh0
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