Pete Crow-Armstrong and Cam Johnson Dive DEEP into Baseball vs. Basketball Intricacies
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three,’ we welcome Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs!
Pete is coming off his first MLB All-Star season, in which he hit 30+ HRs, had 30+ stolen bases, and earned his first Gold Glove Award. Pete gets into how he made his jump last season, what he expects from this upcoming season, his young career so far and getting traded from the Mets, what makes players like Shohei Otani and Paul Skenes so great, and much more.
Pete and Cam also have a fascinating discussion about the similarities and differences in basketball vs. baseball and the NBA vs. MLB around schedules, watching film, measuring success in their statistics, and lots more. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Old Men in Three. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined by co-host Tommy Alter. |
| 0:16.9 | Today on the pod, we have Chicago Cup Pete Crow Armstrong. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome Pete. |
| 0:22.6 | Pete's a 2025 MLB All-Star. |
| 0:25.6 | Really honored to have him on a show. |
| 0:27.6 | Looking forward to a little bit of basketball, baseball, |
| 0:29.6 | baseball crossover. |
| 0:30.6 | How you doing, man? |
| 0:31.6 | Man, I'm outstanding now that I'm here. |
| 0:35.6 | And I appreciate you guys having me. I'm ready to chop it up. Where are you at in the season right now? You guys just started camp out here? First official day to day. Full squad. Pitchers and catchers been going for the last like four or five days. But as the years have gone on, like dude just starts showing up early and earlier so um we've all been |
| 0:55.0 | kind of going but today was the first official day how you guys looking really good good yeah real happy |
| 1:00.5 | we were talking we were talking when you're pulling up about the length of the season do you feel |
| 1:06.3 | used to that now at this point yeah i mean last year was by far the most games ever played in my life. |
| 1:14.7 | I think I played 150, 155, 157, something like that, not including playoffs. |
| 1:20.7 | But I would say it's easier to maintain as the season goes just because, like, resources |
| 1:25.9 | are better. |
| 1:26.4 | Foods better. |
| 1:28.9 | Travel, although you're traveling more, like, travels easier. |
| 1:32.7 | The beds are nice. |
| 1:33.9 | Like, all the little things, I think, that we may not realize in the minor leagues |
| 1:38.3 | has definitely gotten me used to the long season, for sure. |
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