The Chicago Cubs are selling manage outfield chance Pete Crow-Armstrong to the majors, according to ESPN. He’s anticipated to be activated forward of Tuesday’s match in opposition to the Colorado Rockies.

Crow-Armstrong, 21, has break the season between Double- and Triple-A. In 34 video games on the upper stage, he’s batted .271/.350/.479 with six house runs and 10 stolen bases. CBS Sports activities ranked him because the Twenty second-best chance in baseball again in June. Right here’s what we wrote:

The Cubs nabbed Crow-Armstrong from the Mets on the 2021 business time limit in change for a half-season of Javier Báez. That’s becoming as a result of, in an overly vast sense, the 2 have related video games. Each are high quality defenders at top rate positions who can slug and run and who tend to put up incline walk-to-strikeout ratios. Crow-Armstrong has made changes to his swing and means since becoming a member of the Cubs that experience him lifting and pulling the ball with quit. He’s been ready to maximise his energy output because of this, despite the fact that it’s reputedly capped the alternative elements of his triple slash. To his credit score, he’s made it paintings to this point in Double-A. Will it paintings as smartly within the majors? We’ll see. His skill to affect the sport in middle and at the basepaths will lend him a large berth. 

Crow-Armstrong may nonetheless be playoff-eligible regardless of making his debut next the Aug. 31 time limit. The Cubs would wish to petition MLB to permit him to interchange an injured participant at the roster. 

The Cubs entered Monday with a 77-67 file at the season, hanging them two video games up at the Arizona Diamondbacks for the second one wild-card spot and a pair of.5 video games up over the Miami Marlins for a playoff spot normally. They’re additionally 3 video games again of the Milwaukee Brewers within the Nationwide League Central.