The 2025 Cubs are trending toward accomplishing one of baseball's rarest feats

Much has been made of the Chicago Cubs' elite duo of Kyle Tucker and Pete Crow-Armstrong, and with good reason: two left-handed power and base-stealing unicorns residing in the same lineup doesn't happen often. As the Cubs enter June, Tucker and PCA are trending toward accomplishing something 10 times rarer than a perfect game and seven times rarer than an unassisted triple play. That feat? A single team having multiple players who both hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases.

Two. In approximately 2,630 MLB team seasons since 1900, that is the number of times teams have featured multiple players go 30/30 (if you're wondering, it was the 1987 Mets with Daryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson and the 1996 Rockies with Ellis Burks and Dante Bichette). For those keeping score at home, that's a microscopic 0.076 percent of teams in MLB history that have accomplished such a feat.

Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kyle Tucker could make MLB history

But wait, there's more! Currently, PCA is on pace for 43 homers and 55 steals. Tucker is on a 34-homer and 45-steal pace. They are both looking like serious competitors for blowing past the 30/30 mark and into the rarefied air of 40/40 players. While a 30-homer and 30-steal season is held in high regard by prognosticators and fans, it's happened, on average, two to three times a year for the last 100 years. 40/40 seasons? That list is far shorter: Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, and Shohei Ohtani each accomplished it one time. It's only been accomplished five times in MLB history, and the Cubs have two guys with legitimate shots this year!

• Jose Canseco (OAK) - 1988 - 42 HR / 40 SB
• Barry Bonds (SF) - 1996 - 42 HR / 40 SB
• Alex Rodriguez (SEA) - 1998 - 42 HR / 46 SB
• Alfonso Soriano (WAS) - 2006 - 46 HR / 41 SB
• Shohei Ohtani (LAD) - 2024 - 54 HR / 59 SB

As for teams with multiple 40/40 players in the same season? Zero. That's right: King Tuck and PCA have the chance to accomplish something never before done in baseball history. More to come as they continue this pursuit.