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10 issues to find out about Pete Crow-Armstrong

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“It’s a beautiful week in Iowa, man”

Cubs No. 1 prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong, mic’d up🗣️ pic.twitter.com/BOYvPWocD8

— Iowa Cubs (@IowaCubs) September 10, 2023

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10 issues to find out about Cubs No. 1 prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong

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1. Crow-Armstrong’s mother and father are each actors. His mother, Ashley Crow, has a protracted checklist of roles in films and tv, from “Minority Report” to “Heroes.” She even has a baseball traditional in her credit — she performed Billy Heywood’s mother Jenny in “Little Big League.” Naturally, that is Crow-Armstrong’s favourite film his mother has been in.

“The only one I can really think of that I’ve seen in-depth is ‘Little Big League,’ because I love that movie, regardless of my mom being in it,” Crow-Armstrong advised the Los Angeles Times in 2020. “It’s a great movie.”

Meanwhile, his dad, Matthew John Armstrong, has been in quite a lot of TV reveals equivalent to “House,” “The Young and the Restless” and “American Horror Story.”

2. In January, MLB Pipeline listed Crow-Armstrong as the very best defensive participant within the Minor Leagues.

Eight months handed and as soon as it was time to re-evaluate which prospects had the very best instruments, Crow-Armstrong’s protection remained on high.

Plus velocity, a powerful arm and precision routes in middle area are why Crow-Armstrong is taken into account an elite, 80-grade fielder on the 20-to-80 scouting scale.

3. Crow-Armstrong’s extra-base energy has grown all through his time within the Minors. He recorded 20 homers and 46 extra-base hits throughout 438 at-bats earlier than being known as up. In 2022, he had 16 homers and 36 XBH throughout 423 at-bats.

4. Although he was born in Southern California, Crow-Armstrong grew up a Cubs fan. Before the 2020 Draft, he advised Prospects1500.com that Javier Báez is his favourite participant to look at. Little did he know then that he can be concerned in a commerce together with his favourite participant in 2021.

5. Crow-Armstrong’s Cubs fandom got here from his dad, who confirmed him Kerry Wood’s 20-strikeout recreation when he was a child. Crow-Armstrong even had a Wrigley Field-esque ivy-covered wall in his yard when he performed Wiffle ball. He bought to play on the precise Wrigley Field within the 2019 Under Armour All-America Game, and he walked, stole a base and scored within the recreation.

6. Crow-Armstrong has hit all over the place he is been. His lowest OPS at any Minor League stage is his .829 at Triple-A this 12 months. His slash line by way of 214 skilled video games is a incredible .301/.376/.515.

Before his 2020 senior season in highschool was halted because of the pandemic, Crow-Armstrong batted .514 in 10 video games with only one strikeout in 42 at-bats. As a junior, he hit .426 with three house runs and 5 triples.

7. Crow-Armstrong’s highschool — Harvard-Westlake High in Los Angeles, Calif. — has turn into a baseball manufacturing facility. Harvard-Westlake has a trio of proficient beginning pitchers within the Majors proper now: the Orioles’ Jack Flaherty, the Braves’ Max Fried and the Guardians’ Lucas Giolito. All three had been additionally drafted within the first spherical straight out of Harvard-Westlake, similar to Crow-Armstrong — Fried went seventh general and Giolito went sixteenth in 2012, and Flaherty went thirty fourth in 2014. Crow-Armstrong performed in the identical Little League as Flaherty, Sherman Oaks, and has recognized him since he was seven.

8. Crow-Armstrong will now share the sphere with a participant who impressed him at a youthful age: Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson. Although he by no means attended school, Crow-Armstrong initially dedicated to Vanderbilt and advised Baseball Prospect Journal that he grew to become a fan of the Commodores as a child after watching Swanson play for the nationwide powerhouse. Swanson was drafted No. 1 general out of Vandy in 2015.

9. Crow-Armstrong stated in 2019 that Bobby Witt Jr. is the very best participant he ever performed with. The two grew to become buddies once they had been roommates whereas taking part in for USA Baseball. They had been members of the 2018 U-18 staff that received a gold medal within the 2018 COPABE U-18 Pan-American Championship.

Crow-Armstrong has performed for Team USA a number of instances — he was on the U.S. 18U National Team in 2018 and ’19, on the 15U National Team in 2017 and even on the 12U National Team again in 2014, when he pitched and hit.

10. If you need to comply with Crow-Armstrong on social media, he is on Instagram at @petecrowarmstrong.

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