Cubs Make Pete Crow-Armstrong Announcement on Thursday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. As the 2025 Major League Baseball season nears its halfway point, the Chicago Cubs have quietly positioned themselves atop the National League Central with a 41-27 record, outpacing second-place St. Louis by five games.

Adding that swing above the zone to his proven power below the zone, Crow-Armstrong became the first player to homer on one pitch at least 3.9 feet off the ground and another less than .9 feet off the ground in the same season in the Statcast era (since 2015), according to mlb.com.