This Cubs player has been putting up big-time numbers while flying under the radar

Simply put, it cannot be stated enough how much of an electric factory this Cubs offense has been approaching the third-way point of the 2025 campaign. Pete Crow-Armstrong is out here resetting the bar through the first fifty games. Kyle Tucker is fitting the bill thus far, living up to the lofty expectations set for him since acquiring him in December. Seiya Suzuki sneakily leads the National League in RBI (43).

However, Miguel Amaya is also contributing more than his fair share without all the bells and whistles surrounding it. Perhaps overshadowed by the blazing start of his platoon mate, Carson Kelly, Amaya has already knocked in 25 runs in just 98 plate appearances. That outpaces Kelly by two in a few less games.

While he isn’t hitting the longball like many of his other teammates, Amaya is smacking the ball around the diamond with nine doubles of his own and pitching in with other key hits. Namely, getting the ball rolling Saturday against the Sox with a two-run single and another two-run knock the week before in New York for two crucial late-inning insurance runs.

Miguel Amaya is redefining his long-term value for the Chicago Cubs

Playing in 26 games thus far, Amaya is well on his way to setting new career highs in just about every offensive statistical category. He’s already halfway to his benchmarks in home runs (8) and runs batted in (47) and should absolutely smash the mark in doubles (13). Still early in the year with a small sample size, but in doing so, he’s improved his slash line to .286/.320/.516 in 2025, up from .232/.288/.357 last season.

Despite his nearly 50/50 split timeshare behind the dish, Amaya ranks 12th among all catchers in bWAR and 14th in fWAR, contributing roughly one win in both metrics. At the team level, the Amaya/Kelly combo ranks atop the league in value, toe to toe with the contributions made by Cal Raleigh so far this year in Seattle.

Amaya may finally be hitting the confidence boost he needed to prove his worth as a major league catcher and coming around to the form expected of him when he presented the farm system in the 2018 and 2019 Futures Games. Still at 26 years old, he could be well on his way to playing a key role in the Cubbie Blue pinstripes for years to come. As for the rest of 2025, getting this level of production from nearly the entirety of the roster will go a long way to keeping this train rolling into the heat of the summer.