Pete Crow-Armstrong's extension is a good deal for both sides (Hour 2)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the second hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong's six-year, $115-million contract extension with the club. After that, CBS Sports writer Matt Snyder joined the show to discuss the Cubs’ outlook for the 2026 season. He believes there’s an argument to make that the Cubs are the second-likeliest team to win the World Series this season.

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0:19.7	The score!
0:21.1	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:22.2	So I've been waiting to say, and the stars are Spiegel and Holmes, Chicago.
0:28.6	Afternoons on the score.
0:31.7	The reason you sign players through extensions is because you think you're getting a deal, frankly.
0:40.8	Or trying to obviously give him greater security at a lower number that he might get if he went year to year and then became a
0:46.0	free agent.
0:46.8	When you're buying out free agent years, you're essentially getting a discount.
0:50.9	That is the exchange, the tradeoff the players make.
0:53.7	So I don't know that this
0:55.5	signals a commitment by the Cubs as much as the Bregman deal did.
1:01.1	It's Ken Rosenthal talking about the PCA deal. Pete's got new money. Well, not yet he
1:07.9	doesn't. He will get his new money starting next season. The deal is a six-year
1:13.9	deal worth $115 million. He was not scheduled to become a free agent until after the 20-30
1:21.7	season. So he was looking at a life of being tendered contracts and then going to arbitration
1:29.6	and having to battle for contracts on an annual basis or have conversations towards that
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