Yesterday, while getting a half-day of rest at DH, Pete Crow-Armstrong went 3-for-5 with 2 HRs and a double, driving in 4 runs during the Cubs’ 7-6 sweep-clinching win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field. That performance pushed him up to 26 homers, 28 stolen bases, and a .288/.386/.552 slash line on the year.
Pete Crow-Armstrong – History in the Making
His 156 wRC+ ranks 4th-best in MLB. And his 26 HRs (t-9th) and 28 SBs (5th) aren’t too far behind. But perhaps more impressively, when accounting for the totality of his contributions, Pete Crow-Armstrong has pushed his overall fWAR up to 7.8 on the season. That is the best in baseball by a wide margin.
fWAR Leaderboard (Position Players):
Pete Crow-Armstrong: 7.8 Yordan Alvarez: 5.7 Dillon Dingler: 5.4 Bobby Witt Jr.: 4.9 Otto Lopez: 4.5fWAR Leaderboard (Pitchers):
Jacob Misiorowski: 5.1 Cristopher Sanchez: 4.6 Cam Schlittler: 4.3 Dylan Cease: 4.3 Chris Sale: 3.9Shohei Ohtani is the only guy who comes remotely close with a combined 6.7 fWAR (3.7 as a hitter, 3.0 as a pitcher). And he’s still over a full win behind.
Now, WAR can go backwards. And there’s still a lot of baseball left to be played. But even if the season ended today, Pete Crow-Armstrong’s 7.8 fWAR ranks among the top-10 individual Cubs seasons (among position players) of all time.
Cubs All-Time Single-Season fWAR Leaders:
Rogers Hornsby (1929): 11.0 Sammy Sosa (2001): 9.9 Ernie Banks (1959): 9.7 Ron Santo (1967): 9.5 Ernie Banks (1958): 8.7 Ron Santo (1964): 8.7 Ron Santo (1966): 8.5 Hack Wilson (1930): 8.0 Ryne Sandberg (1984): 8.0 Pete Crow-Armstrong (2026): 7.8To be hyper-granular, PCA is currently sitting at 7.79 fWAR, which just narrowly edges out Ernie Banks’ 7.78 fWAR season in 1955. Of course, PCA’s year isn’t over yet.
If you include pitchers, there are another eight individual Cubs seasons that top PCA. However, five of those happened before 1893, so … not sure we should really compare those. Which leaves three, all Fergie Jenkins.
Again, WAR is not a straight line that goes only up, but with his defense and vastly improved underlying offensive performance, I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine this continuing to climb the rest of the way.
But how far?
Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong | Charles LeClaire-Imagn ImagesAccording to FanGraphs’ ZiPS depth-charts projection, which includes expected playing time the rest of the season, Pete Crow-Armstrong will earn another 2.0 fWAR before the end of the year. If that is, indeed, how this plays out, PCA will finish his 2026 campaign with 9.8 fWAR, third behind only Hornsby and Sosa, while clearing all of the pitchers (which is actually just clearing three of Fergie Jenkins’ seasons: 8.2, 9.5, and 9.6 fWAR from 1969 to 1971).
In other words, with just the conservative expectations of a well-regarded set of projections, and inclusive of expected playing time, PCA is projected to deliver the third-most valuable overall season in Chicago Cubs franchise history.
Expanding out of the Cubs organization, there have been only 60 individual position-player seasons (26 distinct players) above 9.8 fWAR. That’s the company he’d be joining if he finishes strong.
We can debate the MVP conversation until we’re blue in the face, but it doesn’t really matter. PCA is already having one of the greatest single seasons any of us have ever seen from a Chicago Cubs player. And that is very, very cool.
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