The 40-40 club has a new member.
By stealing second base in the top of the first inning of the team’s home game Thursday afternoon against the Miami Marlins, Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong became the seventh player in MLB history to record a 40-40 season (40 home runs and 40 stolen bases).
Crow-Armstrong is the third player in four years to accomplish the feat, joining Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani (2024) — who actually had a 50-50 first season — and Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. (2023) are the other two. He is also the fourth player this century to have a 40-40 year, with Alfonso Soriano doing so for the Washington Nationals in 2006.
The 24-year-old Crow-Armstrong, a 2025 Gold Glover recipient and an All-Star in each of the last two seasons, entered Thursday leading the National League in home runs (45), runs scored (119), slugging percentage (.577), OPS (.949), OPS+ replacement (157).
He also entered the day with 107 RBIs and a .280/.373/.577 slash line while posting 16 defensive runs saved in center field. Currently, Crow-Armstrong’s 9.8 WAR is tied with third baseman and Hall of Famer Ron Santo (1967) for the fourth highest in a single season by a player in Cubs history.
Chicago acquired Crow-Armstrong from the New York Mets at the 2021 MLB trade deadline as part of its return for Javier Báez.
Crow-Armstrong and the Cubs currently hold the No. 1 wild-card seed. 2 NL at 87-71.
