Cubs prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong rounds the bases after a grand slam Pete Crow-Armstrong showed why he’s one of the top prospects in baseball and the top prospect in the Cubs organization on Wednesday.
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Pete Crow-Armstrong is ranked as the No. 25 prospect in all of Major League Baseball and the top prospect in the Chicago Cubs organization. On Wednesday, he showed why.

Crow-Armstrong and the Tennessee Smokies (Chicago’s Double-A affiliate) were taking on the Birmingham Barons, the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. In the top of the eighth inning, Crow-Armstrong came up with the bases loaded. The great RBI opportunity quickly got precarious, though, as Crow-Armstrong fell into an 0-2 hole against Birmingham pitcher, Luke Shilling.

Then, the magic started.

After falling behind 0-2, Crow-Armstrong fouled off 11 pitches and took two other balls. On the 15th pitch of the at-bat, Crow-Armstrong appeared to strike out. But Birmingham’s catcher, Xavier Fernández couldn’t quite come up with a clean catch on Crow-Armstrong’s foul tip. That bought Crow-Armstrong a 16th pitch — which he promptly sent over the right field wall for a grand slam.

Fans took notice of Crow-Armstrong’s fantastic at-bat.

Crow-Armstrong is having a big season in Double-A, slashing at .341/.375/.614. And while power is not a huge part of his game, at-bats like this show that when pitchers make mistakes over the plate against him, he can make them pay.

With at-bats like this one, it won’t be long before the former first-round pick is digging into the left-handed batter’s box at Wrigley Field.

[Michael Ernst]

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