00:00Will Pete Crow Armstrong have the Cubs' first 40-40 season?
00:05I am of the belief that that's where we're headed because if you just take what he's done in the
00:11second half of the season,
00:12he can even, you know, take his foot off the gas a little bit.
00:15I think he gets there.
00:16This man has been absolutely phenomenal in the second half of the season.
00:21He's got nine home runs since the All-Star break in 30 games.
00:26Only two players.
00:27Willie Abreu, White Sox fans know him well, and Matt Olsen of the Braves have more with 11 apiece.
00:33Pete Crow Armstrong is simply on a tear.
00:37And as long as he continues to not even be on a tear, but just to produce at a much
00:41better rate than what we saw in the first half of the season,
00:44I think he's got a great shot to get to 40-40, namely because you can't pitch around PCA.
00:50Say a Suzuki is making sure that you have to pitch to him.
00:54Because if you put him on base, he's stealing a bag and he's going.
00:57The 40 stolen bases, I think we can all agree, that's a given.
01:00It's just a matter of, can he hit 10 more home runs?
01:03I think he might get four or five more home runs in the month of August at the rate he's
01:07going.
01:08Yeah, I think he gets to 40-40.
01:11There's too much time left in the regular season for him not to.
01:14And there's too many games of consequence.
01:16I think at least, if nothing else, the 40 stolen bases mark seems reasonable.
01:24Am I...
01:2431 steals already.
01:25I feel a little dangerous saying it, but I feel like that seems reasonable for him.
01:31The stakes get higher and then the stolen bases get more stressful.
01:35And then the next thing you know, you're in October and it's playoff time.
01:38So that's how I feel.
01:39But I think there's too much time.
01:42Like on the calendar, there are too many games left for him to be able to do it.
01:45Does the mat work there proportionally speaking?
01:4831 stolen bases.
01:49It took him 126 games to get to that stolen base mark.
01:53So I'm a little more skeptical.
01:57Like what's going through my head right now is like whether or not PCA stays hot.
02:02Like was this the beginning of another heater for PCA?
02:05Is he about to go off?
02:07Is he about to go crazy again after having a relative slump really coming into the series?
02:13That's what it comes down to for me.
02:14So I'm struggling with this one, to be honest.
02:16I think the biggest thing is understanding that he leads off for the Cubs.
02:20They have the type of offense where people just get on base.
02:23So he's going to get so many plate appearances.
02:25He's going to get extra chances that you're probably not even...
02:27Like how many times did he get to the plate last night?
02:29He was four for five.
02:30Oh yeah, with a walk.
02:32He got six plate appearances.
02:33And he's getting five minimum pretty much every single game.
02:36I'm going to say he falls just short.
02:37Okay.
02:38Yeah.
02:39On both or just the...
02:39Yeah, yeah.
02:40Well, wow.
02:42Yeah, I'm going to say he falls just short on both.
02:44He's like a 37, 39 guy.
02:46Yeah, like I could see that, man.
02:48And like it might get in his head a little bit too.
02:51You know what I mean?
02:51Like to get to that.
02:52And I wouldn't blame him for allowing...
02:54And sometimes when you're thinking about that stuff, you press, you know, the anxiety
03:00goes up a little bit.
03:01I guarantee you against TBD and those guys in this series, he's going to have at least
03:06one more home run in the next two days alone.
03:08Okay.
03:08Okay.
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