Pete Crow-Armstrong has been on a tear and we know who's helping him (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.6 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the final hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Cubs star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong's sensational performance and explained how veteran Justin Turner deserves a little credit for helping out Crow-Armstrong. Later, the guys discussed the possibility that Cubs legend Anthony Rizzo could soon be officially retiring.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score.
0:03.2	I got to ask you, do you think he's a top five player in baseball?
0:07.3	Top five.
0:09.2	You know, I'm going to need a little more track record than a month and a half for that.
0:15.0	But he is a great all-round player.
0:18.0	You know, I remember in spring training, he was betting over 500.
0:21.4	Quint Barry told me, you know, tongue partly in cheek that he's the best player he ever
0:26.5	saw, but, I mean, he was clear that they were pretty impressed.
0:33.3	That was a fun exchange right there.
0:35.8	Guess what?
0:36.6	Technically, he is a top five player in baseball right now, right?
0:40.3	Yeah, he is.
0:41.8	In terms of war, he is.
0:44.3	Yes.
0:45.0	Because of, you know, and that being the pervasive metric,
0:48.2	I always want to push back just a tiny bit on war.
0:51.3	Look, it is good for a lot of things.
0:53.1	I'm not asking what is it good for.
0:54.9	I'm not doing that.
0:56.1	Absolutely nothing.
0:57.4	Whoa.
0:58.2	Say it again.
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