Pete Crow-Armstrong’s August surge has done more than give the Cubs a lift in the NL Central race and help them hold onto a Wild Card spot. It has pushed him into a slice of MLB history that hasn’t been touched in 32 years.
Crow-Armstrong blasted 14 home runs in August, including five over the last two games, and that outburst has put him squarely in the MVP conversation - and, according to the source, likely in the lead heading into the final month of the season. It also put him in the same statistical neighborhood as Ken Griffey Jr.
As Sarah Langs noted on Twitter/x, “Pete Crow-Armstrong's 14 homers in August are the most by a player at age 24 or younger in a calendar month since Ken Griffey Jr. hit 15 in May 1994.”
That makes Crow-Armstrong the most recent player age 24 or younger to clear at least 14 homers in a single month, with Griffey’s 15 in May 1994 standing as the last time a young player put together a month like this.
The company gets even more elite from there. Langs also pointed out that Crow-Armstrong joined 11 players in MLB history with “14+ home runs in at least 1 calendar month before turning 25.”
That group includes Griffey, Mark McGwire, Bob Horner, Reggie Jackson, Harmon Killebrew, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Mathews, Ralph Kiner, Joe DiMaggio, Rudy York and Chuck Klein.
For a 24-year-old to land on a list like that says plenty about the kind of season Crow-Armstrong is putting together. He’s up to 38 homers with 91 RBIs, a .283 batting average, a .954 OPS and 32 steals in 2026.
With one month still left, Crow-Armstrong has a chance to turn an already huge season into something even bigger.
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