Pete Crow-Armstrong

The Chase

4 SB from 100 — our pace: ≈ September 14, 2026 Follow the chase →

Moments

Pete Crow-Armstrong's walk-off home run — Pete Crow-Armstrong ended it in the 10th. A home run that ended the game in extra innings, or with the bases loaded. Read it →

Pete Crow-Armstrong's cycle — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit for the cycle. A single, a double, a triple and a home run in one game. Read it →

The Line of the Day

4-5, 2 HR, 2B, 3 RBI, 1 BB — Mon, Aug 17 · night game vs. Chicago White Sox The scorecard →

3-5, 2 HR, 2B, 4 RBI — Wed, Aug 5 · day game vs. Los Angeles Dodgers The scorecard →

4-5, HR, 2 2B, 3 RBI — Sat, Jul 25 · night game vs. Pittsburgh Pirates The scorecard →

The card rack

FlagshipPete Crow-Armstrong #177 · 2024 Topps Heritage · 846 recent sales 7N ▲47.5%

$3.49Raw$30.73PSA 9$158PSA 10$205BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookiePete Crow-Armstrong #85 · 2024 Bowman · 1151 recent sales 7N ▲9.9%

$1.73Raw$22.00PSA 9$70.98PSA 10$92.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Daylight between contact and production: a luck gap of 0.0529 puts Crow-Armstrong ahead of more than 97 percent of the 372 qualified hitters we track. His EV95 of 108.35 clears the league median of 105.9, but not by enough to typically buy a .925 OPS and 33 home runs with top-10 ranks in both. He's No. 12 of 15 on the fade board, and gaps like his tend to close from above. What won't regress: the 29.5 sprint speed, the 32 stolen bases, the 8.6 WAR banked at 24. A first-round pick out of Sherman Oaks who debuted in September 2023, Crow-Armstrong has a floor built on glove and legs, and a ceiling that turns on whether the bat's contact can catch its results.

Current signals

The read: Crow-Armstrong's results are outrunning his contact by more than 97% of the 373 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 108.3 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 11 of 15 on the fade board.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

108.345

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0542

Overlay score

-0.2701

WAR (season · MLB calc)

8.6

Balls in play

352

Sprint (ft/s)

29.5

Age

24

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 24, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.89M

Tax hit

$0.89M

Service time

1 yr 170 d

Guaranteed

$115M

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago Cubs.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.89M

Guaranteed

$0.89M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

Collect Pete Crow-Armstrong

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The Bureau on Pete Crow-Armstrong

The scouting press, in their own words