Is Pete Crow-Armstrong Baseball’s Next Superstar or Just a Flash in the Pan?
By FanGraphs WAR, Baez owns the two most valuable seasons of the pitch tracking era (since 2008) by a hitter who ran a chase rate over 40%. (In a telling example, Pablo Sandoval notched both the third-most valuable and the most negative season of this group.)
As recently as his 2019 season with the Cubs, the man they call El Mago was an All-Star who logged a solid 111 RV+ despite a grisly 59 discipline+ mark, but since then the calculus has been difficult to sustain. In 2023, he cratered at a 65 RV+.

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