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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Are the Cubs legitimate contenders?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed where the Cubs stand as contenders in the National League.

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0:00.0

still puts me on 10 tani still it's another one all right i won't i won't go into it

0:12.5

shout out sticking fingers uh anyway this is the speed going home show we've got a lot to discuss

0:18.3

on this last hour of the show, including the MVP candidacy of one Pete Crow Armstrong.

0:26.4

Yeah, it's viable.

0:27.7

Top five among all National League players easily in terms of that conversation, maybe top three in terms of that conversation.

0:37.3

And by wins above replacement, he's number one, right?

0:40.1

In the National League right now?

0:41.5

It's fun when you legitimately have, here's what's crazy about the Cubs lineup right now.

0:47.6

As we were past Memorial Day and they're playing a really crappy team in the Colorado Rockies.

0:53.8

Maybe the worst of all time.

0:55.8

That you have two guys who for sure are MVP candidates and Pete Crowe Armstrong and

1:02.5

Kyle Tucker.

1:03.7

You also have Sayas Suzuki very quietly having a great season, not a good one, a great season.

1:11.9

Best season of his Cubs career leads the majors in RBIs,

1:15.3

just one National League player of the week today for the second time in his career.

1:19.6

Now, granted, the Cubs have had to deal with a lot of injury so far,

1:23.7

and there's another one that we can add to the list, speaks.

1:26.5

Yeah, Miguel Amaya is going to be out

1:27.9

four to six weeks our Bruce Levine is tweeted a little while ago with that oblique injury so that's

1:33.6

rough man oblique's everywhere so amaya with the oblique Ian Hap with the oblique Javier Assad moved to the

1:43.2

60 day when he re-aggravated his oblique.

1:46.8

Who else?

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