In his end-of-season press conference this October, Cubs President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer implied that he’d be trying (this offseason) to extend some Cubs players beyond their current term of team control. And while any number of soon-to-be free agents came to mind (most notably, Nico Hoerner, a free agent after 2026), the guy he may have had most in mind is Pete Crow-Armstrong.
In case you forgot, the Cubs attempted to extend Pete Crow-Armstrong last spring, juuuuuust before his gigantic first-half breakout. This offseason, according to Bruce Levine at Marquee Sports Network, they will try again.
Cubs Will Try to Extend Pete Crow-Armstrong
There is a lot of important information in Levine’s latest at Marquee, but let me direct you to the key sentence of his report (bolded emphasis mine):
“Going into his second full season in the major leagues, Crow-Armstrong and the Cubs will revisit a brief negotiation that had the 23-year-old player pushing aside a $90 million contract proposal in the spring, according to MLB sources.”
Strictly speaking, there’s not a huge rush to extend Pete Crow-Armstrong, as he’s under team control through 2030. However, there are some key factors to keep in mind. For one, PCA is going to be arbitration eligible a year earlier than most players are, giving him four full years of eligibility. And given his high counting stats (HRs, SBs, RBI, etc.), he’s extremely likely to clean up in arbitration. That means he’s likely going to start costing the Cubs very real money, very soon. And they know that.
© Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn ImagesAnd even if you don’t believe he’s a lock for big (re: relevant to arbitration stats), that’s a lot of cost uncertainty in the near term.
For another, if he has even ONE more season like he did in 2025, he could price himself out of the Cubs’ extension range entirely. He’ll be a relatively young free agent (29 years old, entering his age-30 season) with an elite five-tool skillset.
Bruce Levine also pointed out his popularity among Cubs (and MLB) fans, in general, where marketing and ticket/jersey sales can come into play.
Looking at the upside for the Cubs to speculate on Crow-Armstrong’s future, they are banking on “PCA” becoming the next Kris Bryant or Anthony Rizzo. Marketing a superstar with the Cubs means big time merchandising money and a television superstar feature on the Marquee Sports Network, which the Ricketts family co-owns with the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Injuries aside, it makes good business sense to ride the PCA popularity vehicle the for next decade.
As a final note, I’m trying not to read too much into Levine’s mention of a possible 10-year contract, as I think it was more off the cuff than anything. But if that were to be the framework, and it started immediately, that would mean the Cubs would be buying out one pre-arb year (2026), four arb years (2027, 2028, 2029, 2030), and tacking on five years of free agency.
The pre-arb and arb years would be more affordable than you think, but buying out that many years of free agency, this far in advance, would be costly. It would also be risky, seeing as we don’t yet know what kind of player PCA will become: he ranges from a good/solid starter on a playoff team (that’s the floor because of his speed and defense, in my opinion) to potentially elite superstar with an almost unparalleled combination of power and speed.
Levine cites recent and similar deals for Corbin Carroll (eight years, $111M) and Ronald Acuña Jr. (eight years, $111M), but I tend to think PCA will be seeking a good bit more than that, especially if the deal extends to ten seasons, as it would all but guarantee he has no “good” shot at a youthful trip through free agency.
More this winter, I’m sure!
Oh, one more thing: Here’s what Pete Crow-Armstrong had to say about extension talks earlier this season:
Pete Crow-Armstrong on extension possibility: "What’s important to me is being somewhere I feel convicted in winning at, where I feeling comfortable playing and living … I absolutely think that Chicago is the place to do that for me. I already take so much pride in being a Cub." pic.twitter.com/tMSvABAdsK
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