<p>Hopefully the kids who showed up to Wrigley Field with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/06/15/cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-hit-for-cycle-walk-off-win-rockies-pedro-ramirez-matt-shaw-shota-imanaga" >“MVPETE” painted on their chests</a> earlier this summer know a good copyright lawyer.</p><p>The phrase might be of interest to the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> when end-of-season awards are handed out, with Pete Crow-Armstrong one of the best players in baseball as the season moves past its midway point.</p><p>The center fielder’s spectacular June ranks among the best statistical months the sport has ever seen.</p><p>Think that’s a little hyperbolic? OptaSTATS shared that Crow-Armstrong is one of three players ever to have a calendar month with at least a .375 batting average, a .775 slugging percentage, 80 total bases, 15 walks, 10 home runs and five steals.</p><p>The other two? Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.</p><p>Crow-Armstrong’s June: a .381 batting average, a .468 on-base percentage, a .781 slugging percentage, 11 homers, 20 RBIs, 21 runs scored, 17 walks and eight stolen bases in 26 games.</p><p>He turned the calendar to July leading baseball’s position players in both fWAR and bWAR and started the month with a bang, hitting a three-run homer in <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/07/01/cubs-dansby-swanson-home-runs-rbis-padres-offense-lineup-craig-counsell-nico-hoerner-pete-crow-armstrong-michael-conforto" >Wednesday’s win</a>.</p><p>While Ruth and Gehrig are two of the best batsmen of all time, they could only dream of being the kind of all-around player Crow-Armstrong is, combining all that offensive excellence with speed and best-in-the-game defense in center field.</p><p>He doesn’t pitch like perennial NL MVP candidate Shohei Ohtani.