Cubs trade deadline chat / PCA MVP case
Jul 28, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
It's MLB Trade Deadline week! What are the Cubs cooking up? Let's make an MVP case for Pete Crow-Armstrong!
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Jason RossHost
Mitch WidmeyerHost
Jul 28, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
It's MLB Trade Deadline week! What are the Cubs cooking up? Let's make an MVP case for Pete Crow-Armstrong!
Jason RossHostMitch WidmeyerHost
This has turned in from, well, is this just a hot streak, to no, this seems to be the new and vastly improved and vastly consistent version of Pete Crow Armstrong.
And I asked the question in the rundown, like, hey, does he have a legit MVP case? The answer is obviously yes.
I was looking at the odds via FanDuel right before we clicked live and hopped on.
Basically, for those who don't bet and don't understand odds, PCA being plus 100, Shohei Otani being minus 130 means that in the eyes of the odds maker, Shohei is just a very, very, very slight favorite to win the MVP over PCA right now, but it's trending in a direction where if PCA keeps doing what he's doing, and we know that Shohei's off the mound right now with that knee issue it's probably going to be a coin flip by next week two weeks down the road as long as PCA keeps doing what he's doing and so to make the case for him I'll let you run with it too because I mean I just bullet pointed some of the simple stuff like he leads the league in F4 Stat cast error record for five-star catches.
Arguably the best defensive player in baseball if you factor in total value with his range metrics.
I don't know how many other players have a 20-20 season under their belt right now.
Shohei Ohtani being off the mound is a huge part of this because he's the two-way sensation, right? He's a starting pitcher for the Dodgers and the designated hitter, and he's won four of the last five years.
He's won an MVP award, two of those in the AL with the Angels, two in the National League with the Dodgers.
I guess I'll hold off on going this direction, but I do believe that voter fatigue is a real thing when it comes to awards.
I remember Nikola Jokic was tearing off MVPs in the NBA, and the year Joel Embiid won it, Jokic... by many people's metrics, add a better season, clearly.
But I don't want to take away from the season PCA is having because even if voter fatigue is a part of it, he has an absolute, in my opinion, and I'm interested to hear what you say, Jason, he has an absolute legitimate case to be the most valuable player.
This has turned in from, well, is this just a hot streak, to no, this seems to be the new and vastly improved and vastly consistent version of Pete Crow Armstrong.
And I asked the question in the rundown, like, hey, does he have a legit MVP case? The answer is obviously yes.
I was looking at the odds via FanDuel right before we clicked live and hopped on.
Basically, for those who don't bet and don't understand odds, PCA being plus 100, Shohei Otani being minus 130 means that in the eyes of the odds maker, Shohei is just a very, very, very slight favorite to win the MVP over PCA right now, but it's trending in a direction where if PCA keeps doing what he's doing, and we know that Shohei's off the mound right now with that knee issue it's probably going to be a coin flip by next week two weeks down the road as long as PCA keeps doing what he's doing and so to make the case for him I'll let you run with it too because I mean I just bullet pointed some of the simple stuff like he leads the league in F4 Stat cast error record for five-star catches.
Arguably the best defensive player in baseball if you factor in total value with his range metrics.
I don't know how many other players have a 20-20 season under their belt right now.
Shohei Ohtani being off the mound is a huge part of this because he's the two-way sensation, right? He's a starting pitcher for the Dodgers and the designated hitter, and he's won four of the last five years.
He's won an MVP award, two of those in the AL with the Angels, two in the National League with the Dodgers.
I guess I'll hold off on going this direction, but I do believe that voter fatigue is a real thing when it comes to awards.
I remember Nikola Jokic was tearing off MVPs in the NBA, and the year Joel Embiid won it, Jokic... by many people's metrics, add a better season, clearly.
But I don't want to take away from the season PCA is having because even if voter fatigue is a part of it, he has an absolute, in my opinion, and I'm interested to hear what you say, Jason, he has an absolute legitimate case to be the most valuable player.
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