Chicago – Carson Kelly needed a moment to take what he was listening to last Friday. Batting the eighth in the lineup, the Chicago cub Catcher had already scored two domestic runs and operated in five in five as a wild 13–11 return on Arizona Diamondback.
He was about to step into the batsman’s box in the eighth innings for his fourth at-bat, when he heard it coming from the stand: “Car-son, kel-li. Car-son-son Kel-Li.”
“I had to take out a step,” Kelly told ESPN the next day smiling. “Wait, what exactly are they saying?”
The mantras directed towards a catcher at the bottom of the order are not common in MLB – but then, it is neither the month when the cub is getting caught nor the production team is getting from under the lineup.
For a few days faster and this time it was the cub number 7 hitter, Pete Crow-Armestrong, who earned treatment.
“PCA, PCA,” provoked a crowd of Wrigley Field during a two-game sweep of the team of Los Angeles Dojers earlier this week. after Slugging A whopping against the doors in the seven-game season series. 897, La Desh had all noted what he was receiving. In fact, in the lineup of the cubs, 7-8-9 hitters are in many headlines in the form of 1-2-3 hitters of other teams, as Chicago has reached the top of the run-scoring leaderboard in MLB.
For intelligence: entering his weekend series against Philadelphia Philos, cubs are 6.3 runs per game. This is almost a complete run compared to the next best team, New York Yankis, an average of 5.5 runs. The separator has been under the order, including Cro-Armestrong, Kelly and fellow catcher Miguel Amaya. The trio, along with the newcomer Kyle Takar, has turned the team’s crime into the best in the first month of the season.
Dosters’ manager Dave Roberts said, “This team is a completely different ballclub than seen in Tokyo.” “They are playing much better.”
The cubs were expecting the best in their two-market chains against Dozers in Japan in mid-March, but instead they got the worst. His crime scored a total of four runs in two defeats, as an anemic, as much for the previous year when he missed the playoffs for the fifth straight (full) season. Chicago was a league-average crime in 2024, leading to a league-average year in standing: 83 win and ticket homes for October.
But for two young players, some clicked on the late plate in the season: Crow-Arcestrong and Amaya. Earlier, especially, began to show why he was taken in the first round by New York Met’s in 2020, eventually traded in the cub for Xavier’s badges after a season. PCA- As he is known-a five-tool speedster whose game is equally spectacular as its personality, which is all a good way. His opes scored 150 points in the second part of the previous season.
Meanwhile, Amaya was a once growing possibility, ignoring injuries and slow to find its form in the plate. There was the nonsense that the cubs were in the market to replace it in the first half of the last season, but then they finished a leg kick and suddenly found their stroke. Their opes jumped 200 Points from the first half to the second last year. The team added Kelly in this winter through a free agency and she proceeded to produce 1.413 OPS in 14 games.
Needless to say, the cub is rolling under the order.
“Me and Migi (Amaya) talk a lot about this,” Cro-Armystrong recently told ESPN. “We take a ton of being on the bottom and producing downwards, and fold the ING lineup.
“This is where we are now related.”
The numbers tolerated their production-until Thursday, cubs led to big companies in domestic runs (13) with their 7-8-9 Hits. According to ESPN research, it has many homes as 21 other organizations. 1-2-3 Hitters and many houses run as two Complete The teams include Boston and Toronto overall.
Jade Hayer, president of the baseball operation, said, “Last year, I felt that our crime was really struggling because the bottom of the order was not actually production.”
Personal transformation of players came into all different forms. Crow-Arcestrong found “on-time” (and cool) with his swing, Amaya finished the leg kick, while Kelly could be the biggest surprise because his 10-year Major League track records showed only 112 career high Oms+ in the same season. It is currently 293.
Kelly said, “I finally got something that I believe and know that it works.” “I am not chasing a certain result. You have to go through ups and downs to know what it is to be a big legers.”
Kelly’s production has inspired quick Crow-Armestrong to slow down when hit behind the catcher.
“I have no inclination to steal when killing the carcass,” Cro-Armestrong took a pinch. “It seems that he is watching F — ING Beach Balls.”
Perhaps Kelly has not given any better portrayal of the depth of the cub on the crime compared to the day of Kelly’s hit earlier this month at Sacramento earlier this month: she got a day off.
Crow-Armestrong said with laughter, “The fact that he gets one day after a day when he hits for the cycle and the day after a two—–house game is very funny,” Cro-Armestrong said with laughter.
The cub is getting the best version of Kelly-he is killing. 342-Some Diamondbacks were expecting for the years he played for him from 2019 to 2023. He scored 18 domestic runs.
Diamondback General Manager Mike Hazen said after that game, “Carson Kelly is a different player when we were with him.” “It is good for him. We always believed in capacity. It seems that it is coming together for him.”
Hazen looks at the same overall ability to the cub, which have a similar offense as diamondback: both have great power and speed.
“PCA is a stud,” Hazen continued. “This was probably more than an age/experience situation …. Their lineup path is deep, the way more dangerous and more dynamic that I remember last year.”
And this has proved to be the case so far. The cub is the first team in the first 25 matches of the first 25 matches of one season to compile 35 domestic runs and 35 stolen locations. They lead all baseballs in the batting average (.265), on-base percentage (.346), stolen bases (40) and opes (.806), while bound in first slugging with Yankiz and third in the third house.
“We are consistent against all,” said the longest Tanner Cube, Ian Hap. “Late scoring, but connecting. We have done it against everyone. It’s 1-9, the ability to bring people on the basis and make things. Every day is different.”
The cub has actually done it against “all”-they are ending the most difficult power-schedule month of any team in baseball this season, at least it has just been rated. He has already won the season series against Dojers and Diamondback, dividing six games with San Diego Padress. The three teams have been closed to make a brilliant start, and the cub has already played 20 games against NL West opponents, which means that easy day should be ahead.
And while there has been inter-producer at the bottom of the order, a player near the top is also doing his share. The tucker as an advertisement in its first month with the team has been good in every way, within the first 26 matches of the team, at least seven domestic runs and seven stolen locations have become the first cub since 1900.
“He is incredible,” Crow-Armestrong simply said.
All this is not perfect for Chicago. The team has a brilliant hole on the third base after sending Struggling Prospect Matt Shaw, while Shortstop Dansbi Swanson has left for a slow start, strikes 33 times in 104 et-bats. But even he joined the flow in Wednesday’s victory over the doseers, going 2-for-4, while another thrilling cub in two runs, the winning of the world series moved 7-6 on the champions.
Even after the night, Swansan at the bottom of the order to straighten the interaction back-selected-the driving force behind the beginning of 16–10 of the cavas, which is the first place in NL Central.
Swansan said, “It is really fun to see a boy like Miggi or Pete.” “Work, conversation, advice, you start showing it in real time. As a group, it is a very big reason we have started what we have.
“There is no drop-off. It is impressive.”
