No distraction for Pete Crow-Arminstrong while Cubs wins, passes from the contractual interviews
Los Angeles-Pete Crow-Arminstrong did not seem distracted in the “Sunday evening baseball”, even while blowing a kiss to his parents in the VIP seats behind the home plate at the Dodger stadium.
The defender of the Chicago Cubs center remained on the message after Saturday’s reports emerged around Contractual contracts with the clubwho escaped the beginning of the season. The agreement is an Armstrong from Corvo will continue to refine his job and puppies will continue to give him patience and latitude to develop as a batter. And at least for now, all negotiations have been presented.
“I’m here to play baseball,” Crow-Arminstrong said. “There has been a general understanding and a general consensus that we will not let it be a distraction throughout the year.”
Crow-Armstrong tackled the topic clearly and then made his routine prayer before reciting in the 4-2 victory on Sunday over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Faced with a crowd of 50,899 and the ESPN public, Crow-Armstrong launched his first two runs at home this season and added a triple to help the Cubs to take a series of three games of the champions of the World Series in office.
Just going to play was a coherent theme. The President of Cubs of the Jed Hoyer baseball operations acquired an Arm-Arm of the New York Mets in the Javier Báez agreement at the commercial deadline of 2021, a time when the choice of the first round of 2020 was recovering from a shoulder surgery and the organization needed an infusion of young talents.
During the Crow-Armstrong debuts season last year, Cubs Craig Counsell manager ordered him to focus on defense and basic race rather than worry about his offensive numbers. The potential of gold glove in a premium position offers the general manager of CUBS Carter Hawkins and the rest of the confidence of the front office that Crow-Armstrong will generate a coherent value also in the future.
However, the managers of Cubs and Crow-Armstrong, represented by the baseball division of the Agency for creative artists, did not find quite common ground to close an agreement during this tour of negotiations.
“The communication was really fantastic in all levels of this conversation,” said Crow-Armstrong. “They were nothing more than very complementary of who I am and what I mean for the organization. This goes in both ways. I appreciated them in all this situation.”
There is no hurry in the sense that Crow-Arminstrong is only 23 years old and already under the control of the club during the 2030 season. But expressed interest in an extension of the contract that would have guaranteed his long-term future in Chicago.
“It’s something I would absolutely like to do: Carter and Jed know it,” Crow-Armstrong said. “It is certainly a testimony of the work I am doing. But I think it is clear that I want to win the games specifically here. So I’m glad they see it – and they see it in me. It means a lot.”
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The offensive potential of Crow-Armstrong remains both questionable and tempting. He hit the first race at Sunday’s house against Tyler Glasnow, leading a quick 95 mph ball out of the foul pole in the right field. He followed him in the seventh inning with a travel homero off the coast of High-Lavage Dodgers Relever Blake Treinen. After that ball disappeared on the central field wall, the edge of the armor approached the plate of the house and kissed his parents, Ashley Crow and Matt Armstrong, who raised him in southern California.
With a huge offensive match, Crow-Armstrong raised his seasonal works of 168 points A689. It will be a long season, full of higher and lowest. The development of the players, as it likes to say puppies officials, is not a linear process. But transmitting an extension of the contract at its particular moment seems to suggest that Crow-Arminstrong thinks he can bring his offensive game to another level.
Crow-Armstrong did not continue to follow that theory, but his trust is obvious.
“Overall, as a player, I have a lot of conviction in myself,” Crow-Arminstrong said. “I don’t think it will change, regardless of the amount of money that has been offered to me, or if it is never offered to me. I don’t think it will ever change.”
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