If you are a fan of checking out leaderboards, have I got some leaderboards for you. Entering play today, 60 games into the season, your WAR leader in the National League is Pete Crow-Armstrong. That’s true whether you’re a fan of fWAR (3.6) or bWAR (3.8) and it doesn’t take a lot of digging into the numbers to see how the Cubs centerfielder has played himself into the highly speculative early MVP conversation. He’s slashing .281/.313/.562 with 15 home runs, 21 stolen bases and 51 RBI a little more than a third of the way through the season.
The Short Porch is thinking about Pete Crow-Armstrong and pitchouts
