Pete Crow-Armstrong shares his emotions in signing extension with Cubs (Hour 4)
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This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. And we are going to bring to you, thanks to Marquee Sports Network, the Pete Crow Armstrong press conference, which we are just moments away from. Pete Crow Armstrong agreeing to what the Cubs made official yesterday after the game. It's reportedly six years worth $115 million. That according to many reports. But the Cubs didn't make it official official until the graphic came. yesterday. And then we got the news that Nico Horner and the Cubs have agreed to a reported extension. We are still awaiting the information regarding those terms that we expect to be reported in similar manners. And no matter how you look at it, it says a lot about what the Cubs believe in not only trying to invest in their team, but double down on decisions they already made.
Enforcing Pete Crow Armstrong to make sure that he
What are the details of Pete Crow-Armstrong's contract extension with the Cubs?
Not enforcing him necessarily, but enforcing the idea that he's going to be a part of this team through his year 31 season, which is big for him regarding the prime of his career. And Nico Horner, based on what we understand, going to be a cup for practically all of it. These are big moves that are being made to the middle of the field.
Jed Hoyer is basically letting you know he believes that this core is capable of contending for a playoff berth, and you can make the argument that more will be added to it over the next couple of seasons. As free agency takes place, as the trade market, which we just talked about with Sahadev Sharma, takes place... These are all steps towards getting an optimal product that ultimately, let's be honest, can topple the Dodgers. Because that's the team on top. That's the team going for the three-peat. That's the team that you have to measure yourself against to get out of the National League and to play in the World Series. And if your team's not good enough to beat the Dodgers, your team is not good enough to win the World Series.
It's kind of that simple right now.
Well, and the capitalism in Major League Baseball is your team is what you spend on. There are times where it overperforms, like the Brewers, and there are times where it underperforms, like, say, the Mets a couple years ago or even last year. But at the same time... what you put into it financially is what you're going to get. But when one team is doing all of this, then yes, I think it is sound business for the Cubs to be able to extend the players who mean the most. The price of this on the flip side is where I think people need to look. It's not necessarily in how much you're spending to retain what you know you're getting. It's in P. Crowe Armstrong's case, how much the rest of the league values his defense and the hit tool.
So if you think he's close to what he was in the first half of the season, and you know his defense to be what it is, then you understand on the open market what that price becomes. Higher, higher, higher, and higher. It's not necessarily the sunk cost when you look at extensions, although it happens that way, because why would a player want to do that? Sometimes they're anticipating it too. It's the other side of it is for a team. It costs so much more money to get a guy like that in free agency or time to develop one than it does to keep them here.
You talked a little bit about that kind of imaginary self-imposed cap. You know what your budget is, right? And you know your budget can change slightly from year to year depending on, let's say the Cubs go to the World Series this year, right? That's so much more revenue from those home dates at Wrigley Field if the games go six, seven games in a series. And then they would have more money to spend and you would think they would continue to add to the team in the way that they have done this past offseason and now just a couple of days into this season when we talk about Nico Horner.
Right. And while we await the Pequot Armstrong press conference, which we'll bring to you, thanks to our local Hyundai dealers and Marquis Sports Network, I want to remind you, we have a show called Palm Saturdays.
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