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Pete Crow-Armstrong

Chicago Cubs · CF · through 2026-09-01

Award case

Why he matters right now

Pete Crow-Armstrong leads the majors in runs and total bases

Through 140 games he is first in runs and total bases — the kind of line that decides awards.

Same case as last night, moved numbers: runs went from 100 to 102 since August 31.

The case in 30 seconds

  • 102 No. 1 in runs and total bases on MLB's own leaderboards — 102 runs, 306 total bases MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  • OPS .943 — 2nd of 50 qualified hitters on this site's tracked board snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
  • 38 38 home runs, past his previous best of 31 in 2025; 102 runs, past his previous best of 91 in 2025 year-by-year record, 2 prior seasons since 2024 (MLB Stats API, cached)
  • From nowhere: Pete Crow-Armstrong is now 2nd of 10 on MLB's home-run board — he wasn't on it a month ago, when it ran 10 deep. nightly anomaly scan, player id matched

The honest caveat

It is still a partial season — 627 plate appearances so far. A rate moves fastest against the strongest arms a schedule has left, and the schedule ahead is not the schedule behind.

What to watch next

Next up: vs Milwaukee Brewers. 18 more to reach 120 RUNS.

Every claim above, with its source (6)
  1. No. 1 in runs and total bases on MLB's own leaderboards — 102 runs, 306 total bases MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  2. No. 1 in runs on MLB's leaderboard MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  3. No. 1 in total bases on MLB's leaderboard MLB season leaderboard (the league's own top-10 board of qualified players, not this site's roster)
  4. OPS .943 — 2nd of 50 qualified hitters on this site's tracked board snapshot batting board — the union of MLB's top-10 hitting boards, then MLB's 3.1 PA per team game rule applied; not the league's full qualified pool
  5. 38 home runs, past his previous best of 31 in 2025; 102 runs, past his previous best of 91 in 2025 year-by-year record, 2 prior seasons since 2024 (MLB Stats API, cached)
  6. From nowhere: Pete Crow-Armstrong is now 2nd of 10 on MLB's home-run board — he wasn't on it a month ago, when it ran 10 deep. nightly anomaly scan, player id matched

Other cases this page considered and did not lead with: Pete Crow-Armstrong sits 2nd in OPS among 50 qualified hitters on this site's tracked board; Pete Crow-Armstrong has already passed his career best in home runs; Pete Crow-Armstrong is climbing fast.

The evidence

Tracked on Live Chases

The score is an editorial score, not a measurement on a common scale. The rank above is this player's position on his own category's board — the ordering the site stands behind. See all tracked chases →

What changed last night

1-for-3 L 4-9 vs Milwaukee Brewers · 2026-09-01 carries a .280 average into today

What to watch next

vs Milwaukee Brewers Wrigley Field · 7:15 p.m. ET Facing Logan Henderson

Pete Crow-Armstrong faces a right-hander in Logan Henderson. He is hitting .269 with 27 home runs in 364 at-bats against right-handers this season.

Situational splits

SplitABAVGHRRBIOPS
vs RHP 364 .269 2757 .934
vs LHP 175 .303 1134 .962
Home 265 .309 2350 1.037
Away 274 .252 1541 .852
Day 226 .261 1335 .853
Night 313 .294 2556 1.007

2026 season, MLB Stats API. A split with no plate appearances is omitted rather than shown as zeroes.

140G
539AB
151H
.280AVG
38HR
91RBI
32SB
272B
73B
.943OPS

Chasing .400

.280Current AVG
108Consecutive hits needed to reach .400
105-for-100Needed over next 100 AB
1.135Rest-of-season AVG to finish .400 (101-for-89)

Status: IMPOSSIBLE

Milestone tracker

ChaseTargetCurrentPaceNeeded from hereStatus
.350 AVG .350 .280 .280 .775 ROS EXTREME
.380 AVG .380 .280 .280 .989 ROS EXTREME
.400 AVG .400 .280 .280 1.135 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.406 AVG .406 .280 .280 1.169 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
.466 AVG .466 .280 .280 1.596 ROS IMPOSSIBLE
50 HR 50 38 44 12 in 23 g · 1 per 7.4 AB EXTREME
60 HR 60 38 44 22 in 23 g · 1 per 4.1 AB EXTREME
62 HR 62 38 44 24 in 23 g · 1 per 3.7 AB EXTREME
70 HR 70 38 44 32 in 23 g · 1 per 2.8 AB EXTREME
73 HR 73 38 44 35 in 23 g · 1 per 2.5 AB EXTREME
200 Hits 200 151 176 49 in 23 g EXTREME
225 Hits 225 151 176 74 in 23 g EXTREME
250 Hits 250 151 176 99 in 23 g EXTREME
262 Hits 262 151 176 111 in 23 g EXTREME
50 SB 50 32 37 18 in 23 g EXTREME
80 SB 80 32 37 48 in 23 g EXTREME
100 SB 100 32 37 68 in 23 g EXTREME
130 SB 130 32 37 98 in 23 g EXTREME
50 2B 50 27 31 23 in 23 g EXTREME
60 2B 60 27 31 33 in 23 g EXTREME
67 2B 67 27 31 40 in 23 g EXTREME
20 3B 20 7 8 13 in 23 g EXTREME
25 3B 25 7 8 18 in 23 g EXTREME
36 3B 36 7 8 29 in 23 g EXTREME
125 RBI 125 91 106 34 in 23 g EXTREME
150 RBI 150 91 106 59 in 23 g EXTREME
175 RBI 175 91 106 84 in 23 g EXTREME
191 RBI 191 91 106 100 in 23 g EXTREME

How likely is the finish?

85%finishes with 40+ home runs
0%finishes with 50+ home runs
0%finishes with 60+ home runs

His rate of 60.610 home runs per 1,000 plate appearances is read as 55.080 after regressing toward the league's 30.360 — a leaderboard selects for players who have outperformed, so an unregressed rate projected forward overstates every one of them. That puts the expected finish at 42.7, against a straight team-game pace of 44. Exact beta-binomial over 104 remaining plate appearances, averaged across playing-time scenarios. Calibrated against Retrosheet finishes: within 7 points of observed frequency in every band, and within 2 in three of five. It is a model, not a measurement.

Home run pace vs the benchmark seasons

36730162 gJudge 62Bonds 7338
Cumulative home runs by team game against straight 62 (Judge 2022) and 73 (Bonds 2001) paces. The homepage checkpoint card uses the exact game-by-game Retrosheet curves; these reference lines are straight-line paces.
73.6%of comparable chases reached 40 HR
0.4%of comparable chases reached 50 HR
0.0%of comparable chases reached 60 HR

Empirical: seasons within ±2 HR of his total at the same team-game checkpoint (n=250); median finish 41. Retrosheet.

Recent game log

Derived nightly from the snapshot ledger — each row is the difference between consecutive days; multi-day rows are labeled.

DateOppResultABHHRRBIRSBBBKAVG
2026-09-01 Milwaukee Brewers L 4-9 31 0 02 02 1 .280
2026-08-31 Milwaukee Brewers W 17-3 91 0 01 00 4 .280
2026-08-30 Cincinnati Reds L 5-7 52 2 22 00 1 .283
2026-08-29 Cincinnati Reds W 17-5 64 3 64 00 0 .282
2026-08-28 Cincinnati Reds L 8-10 52 0 00 00 1 .277
2026-08-26 Arizona Diamondbacks L 0-2 41 0 00 00 3 .276
2026-08-25 Arizona Diamondbacks L 4-5 30 0 00 01 0 .276
2026-08-24 Arizona Diamondbacks W 7-0 50 0 00 00 0 .278
2026-08-23 Seattle Mariners W 19-2 42 1 32 11 1 .281
2026-08-22 Seattle Mariners L 4-5 41 0 00 00 0 .279

Recent highlights

Lahman + Retrosheet context

How this season fits history

Rare companyOnly 14 seasons

40 HR, 30 SB, and 100 RBI

Historical twinRonald Acuña · 2019

84% season-shape match

HR checkpoint-21 vs Barry Bonds

Through 139 team games; 59 in 2001

Chase history

.211.254.29604-0309-01
Batting average, day by day
0224504-0309-01
Projected HR, day by day