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Pete Crow-Armstrong sets multiple Cubs milestones with another home run against Brewers

Pete Crow-Armstrong is having one of the strongest seasons of any Cubs player in recent history.
ByBrandon Glick|
Pete Crow-Armstrong reaches the 20/20 barrier for the 2025 season, the first Cubs player since Cody Bellinger to do so.
Pete Crow-Armstrong reaches the 20/20 barrier for the 2025 season, the first Cubs player since Cody Bellinger to do so. | Griffin Quinn/GettyImages

Pete Crow-Armstrong is really, really good at baseball.

Just in case you need another reminder, though, here you go:

That home run, his second moonshot of the series against the Milwaukee Brewers, was more symbolic than just a normal two-run blast. According to the Chicago Cubs, PCA is now both the youngest (23 years old) and fastest (73 games played) player in franchise history to reach the fabled 20 home run/20 stolen base marker in a single season.

Pete Crow-Armstrong makes Cubs history with 20/20 season

Crow-Armstrong is also the fastest player to reach the 20/20 barrier this season, as no other player with 20+ stolen bases has even 17 home runs (Elly De La Cruz has 16), and no player with 20+ home runs has more than 11 stolen bases (Shohei Ohtani).

Considering that he's also the best defensive center fielder in baseball, at least according to Outs Above Average, it should be no surprise that "MVPete" leads the NL in both bWAR (4.4) and fWAR (4.0).

The last Cubs player to reach the 20/20 threshold was Cody Bellinger in 2023, when he smacked 26 homers and stole 20 bases. Before that, Javier Baéz in 2018 (34/21) and Corey Patterson in 2004 (24/32) were the only Cubs players to accomplish the feat this century.

PCA's 20/20 season is the 13th in Cubs history, accomplished by eight different players: Crow-Armstrong, Bellinger, Baéz, Patterson, Sammy Sosa (x4), Ryne Sandberg (x3), Leon Durham, and Frank Schulte.

Considering Crow-Armstrong has played in all but one of the Cubs' first 74 games of the season, he is on pace for nearly 44 home runs and more than 50 stolen bases this year. While that would fall short of the ridiculous 50/50 club that Ohtani invented last year with the Los Angeles Dodgers, it would make him just the seventh player in MLB history to reach the 40/40 mark.

Regardless of how the rest of the season plays out, Crow-Armstrong's electric first half of the 2025 season will go down in the annals of Cubs lore.

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