Nick Baumgardner

Even though where the Cubs were, the second half wasn't great, that carried over into the postseason for Pete as well.

My eye is on which version of Pete do you get in 26.

Because if you can get, we'll call it...

Sixty five percent, even 70 percent of the first half, Pete Armstrong offensively with that same high quality defense that we saw from him since he's gotten to the big leagues, to be honest.

Then you still have a high quality player.

So you want, let's say, a two-thirds version of the first half of PCA for the entirety of the season.

The consistency level.

So if I'm doing the math correctly, at that rate, he would be a guy who hits, let's say, 30 home runs.

And he would be a guy who steals, let's say, 40 bags.

And maybe the peripherals are higher.

Maybe an on-base percentage over 300.

Because his on-base was below 300.

Yes.

And we talked about it a lot last year.

And the slug was 481.

So maybe this is what we're thinking.

A guy who hits 30 home runs, steals 40 bases, a batting average above 250...

an on-base above 300, a slug of, I'm going to say, 475, and an OPS above 800.

Is that a formula that works for you?

I think that's fair.