Pete Crow-Armstrong found his power and became an MVP candidate, but his focus is on the title of the Cub World Series

Atlanta – In view of his youth and the fact that he competed in the season in the season.

The Chicago Cubs have never had an electricity speed like Pete Crow-Armstrong. Always.

The Cubs were created in 1876 when the Chicago White stockings were created. They have 45 players in Hall of Fame and countless others who both meet Homeruns and steal on a half -hearted basis. You have never had someone like PCA.

After the second half was resumed on Friday after the All Star break, the 23-year-old all-star sits at 25 Homeruns and 27 stolen bases and sets it at speed to end the season with 42 Homeruns and 46 stolen bases.

The list of Cubs that ever have a season of 40 to 40 is not long. Nobody is on it. Sammy Sosa in 1993 and 1995 was a 30-30 man. The only other Cubs player who even reached 25-25 is the Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg, who had 40 Homer and 25 steals in 1990 and in 1985 with 54 steals. PCA is already there with Sosa and Sandberg. If we lower the parameters to 20-20, we can add Cody Bellinger (2023), Javier Báez (2018), Corey Patterson (2004), two more Sosa seasons, another Ryno season, Leon Durham (1982) and Frank Schulte (1911).

Again: the cubs have never Had such a power threat.

“I would lie if I said I wouldn't know what my statistics were,” said Crow-Armstrong to CBS Sports at all-star game celebrations at the beginning of this week. “At the moment I know what they are, but that's it.

The stolen bases are no surprise. He is one of the fastest players in baseball. When asked which players he could see, the power-speed star Byron Buxton Crow-Armstrong Elly de la Cruz and PCA called. “These two boys stab me,” he said. “Watching these boys helps me get better.”

The Cubs Right Field Kyle Tucker, who was traded in Chicago in winter, has an egging on his new teammate.

“I told him at the beginning of the year, I think I had another stolen base at that time.” He now has more than me, so I expect him to be done with more than me.

However, power came the surprise this season. Crow-Armstrong scored 41 Homeruns in the minor, but that came in 240 games with only 11 in Triple-A (in 60 games). His current slugging percentage of 0.544 is higher than in any level of A-Ball. Last season, in his first full year in the majors, he only hit 0.384 with 10 homes in 123 games.

The book about PCA in the season was that he would be an amazing player on the bases and in the middle of the field, but everything he gave with the bat would be sauce. Instead, he changed into the best Power -Hitter of Baseball that fourth in the National League has in home runs and seventh sluggish in the National League.

Changes in the dough's box seem to have the way for this powerful version of PCA. When he made his debut in the majors for the first time, he was quite upright in the box. Here is a highlight of a triple-A Homerun in 2023 to illustrate so much:

And now is his youngest Homerun here:

Note how open he is with the front and a little more crouches than he was upright.

According to the Statcast, not only that, but also at the end of last season, started a whole foot back into the battery's box.

“I definitely try to give the chance to see the baseball as long as possible,” Crow-Armstrong told MLB.com in spring training. “I don't really know if I have found my most convenient place in the box so far, but I think there is definitely something to see the ball as long as possible and give yourself time.”

The improvements in the box of the dough and the natural development to make themselves more conveniently that deal with a large league have led to an explosion. The speed was already there. Now the strength is too.

Crow-Armstrongs Turnaround was so great that he is a legitimate MVP candidate (+600 in the National League, Pro Caesars). In fact, he leads the NL in the war ahead of Juan Soto, James Wood, Fernando Tatís and even Shohei Ohtani.

However, the numbers step down for PCA, he says.

“When I play well, this usually means a better chance for the cubbies that win more ball games,” he told CBS Sports. “We have a lot of people who have the chance to reach these benchmarks, but we are a good club because we are worried about winning every day.”

It works. The Cubs come from the All-Star break to first place in NL Central. You have not been during the break since 2019 and this record has been the best during the break since 2016, in which you won the World Series for the first time since 1908. And although the numbers may not be on crow arm strongs, the World Series is definitely.

“Something like [40-40] To be able to look back is always nice and the work that you can do to get there, but the goal is clear to win the World Series, “he said.